New-York tribune., 1841-10-15
From the London Gems of Art for l3i2.
A VISION OF THE STARS.

ByT. <. HErvEr.
And fancy-wrapt sees 10 the lecey cloud,
Ccl.stal shapes that wait upon the Moon,
Ia her sT # couree, r.se from Oceans lap
Continuous II. Horcrd
For ever gone the world is growing old
Gone the brigh, visions Of It's un;augh, youth
The age of fancy the age Of gold,
And Sorrow holds the lamp that lights to Truth !
And wisdom writes her records on a page
Whence many pleasant tale Ia swept away
The wild sweet fables OF the dreaming age,
The gorgeous stories of The classic day
The world is reused from glad and glowing dreams
Though reused by light awakIng SUI IS pam
And obi could men renew their broken liie''e''
Then. would the world a, times might sleep again
Oh for ,ne plains-the bright and haunted plans
Where C;eniss wandered. when The earth was new
Led by the soand OF more than mortal strains;
And gathering flowers OF many vanished nue.
The deafness forms that on the lonely hi!
Came sweetly gliding TO the lonely breast,
~ snoke. in spirit whispers from tae rill
That luIIed the watcher to his mystic rest
The shapes that met lis steps by green and glade
Or glanced through nid-air, on their cleaning
Tha, lowered where the young, wild fountains
played
And hung in raiubows o'e the dancing springs,
Or drew aside the curtains ofthc SKY
Aud showed their starry mansions to his eye!
Oh! the brigh, tracks By Truth from error won!
For half the beauty OF the wors IS gone
Since Science built Ger fancy's wild domain!
A dream of beauty such as came. Of old,
To him who ans watched the hosts OF light,
As one by one their fiery chariots rolled,
In golden poinp along the vault OF Night
TIL another, and another deep
Sen, ferth spiri, to the shining train,
Their Invriad motion rocked his hear, 10 sleep
But left bright pictures in the haunted BRAIN
Where forms grew up, and took the starry eyes
That cleaned upon HIM from the crswded skies!
a dream Ike his 10 whom the boon was given
To read the story of the at will,
And by the Lights they held for him in heaven,
Talk with their lady on the Latnios hill
A vision Of the stars the moon, to-aishi-
Her antered coursers by the nyinph;rain driven,
Rides in the chariot OF her own sweet light
TO hunt the shadows through the fields ofhcayen
And OH the hunting grounds Of yender sky,
Whose streams rninbows and whose flowers
are stars =
The shapes of Ugh, that. as they wander by
Do spirit, homage from their golden cars
The meteor troop that as she passes, play
Their fiery gambols in their ladys s5ignt;
And planet. forms that on her crowded way,
Throw silver incense from their urns OF llSht!
Lot Perseus from his everlasting hight
Looks out to see the hunuess aud her train;
And Loves planet III the pale, soft light,
Looks young as when she from out the main
And plying all the nig, his starry wings,
Up 10 her throse, the herald of the sky
From many az earthly II me and hilltop, brings
The morris, offering of young hearts sigh
And round her chariot sail immortal forms,
Or darkly hang about its shining rim;
And far away tie scared aud hunted storms
Leap from their presence, 10 their caverns dim!
Ou-onwar1 at her wild fancy led
Along the clord-laud-patns she holds her fight,
Where rears the ttle.sIar his crested head
And bares his burning falchion through the night!
Where, hand in haad, the brothers of the sky
Sit like twin angels, or pure hea"enward sleep
While far below, with urns that never dry,
The mourning Hyads hang their heads and weep
Where brightly dwell in all their early smiles,
Ere 0nc was lost-ihe sweet and sister seven,
Like blessed spirits. pausiug from their tolls,
Or some fair family rest in heaven
Where swter than her steeds that never tire
Some comet.shape-those couriers of the sky
In b-eathlcss haste, upon his barb OF hre,
On some Immortal message, rushes by
Der the dim nights where, cucircled by his tram,
And wearing on his brow his sparkling crown,
The planet-monarch holds his ancient reign;
And from his palace Of the clouds, looks down.
With stately presence and smiling eye
On his brigh, people of the boundless sky
Mid Norihern Lights, like fiery flags uniurcd
And SOFT sweet gales that reach the world;
Mid flaming signs that perish in their Birth
And ancient orb, that have no name on earth;
Hailed by the songs Of everlasting choirs
And welcomed from thousand burning Tyres
Oh! for the ancient dreamers prophet eye.
To the hunting grounds Of yonder sky
To hang upon some planets wheeling car,
And tread tue cloud land paths from star
And climb the nights where old Endymiou
Held lofty converse with the lady moon;
Or, lifted TO her chariot of the sky,
Look on its jewellers With lofty eye,
And hroughou,its fields in that bright vision driven,
Walk, for one night, amid the hosts of heaven.