Are cach paved with the moon and these 1 The Cloud, Vol.iii.p.168. For other descriptions of the moon see the follo passages: Vol.i.pp.99,109. Vol.1. Revolt of Islam, Canto iv.stanza 3 Ibid.Canto vii.stanza 22; Ibid.Canto xii,stanza 21. Vol.iii,p.54,55,63,124,138,152,107,174,21 269,271,290,320,441. Vol.iv.p.284,285,378,388. CHAPTER I V. 1100011 THE STARS. Many passages referring to the stars have already been quoted in the preceding chapters, and they need not be repeated here. Neither will it be essential to quote passages in which the stars are used figuratively, except when spoken of in connection with the night. In general, Byron speaks of the stars in the most mat ter-of-fact way. Sometimes the stars are mentioned in con nection with the sunset: "The days' dying glory Gave place to the rays of the bright polar star." And in these longer passages: (1) "It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill, (2) Which then seems as if the whole earth it bour Circling all nature, hushed and dim and sti With the far mountain-crescent half surrounded On one side, and the deep sea calm and chil Upon the other, and the rosy sky, with one star sparkling through it like an eye "The face of heaven, which from afar Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, And now they change; a paler shadow strows Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till--'tis gone--and all He also connects stars with the sunrise: "A sta night and morn, upon the horizon's verge"; "The star watches, welcoming the morn"; "Will the morn never I these stars which twinkle yet o'er all the heavens?' 1 Don Juan, Canto ii.stanza 183. 2 Childe Harold, Canto iv.stanza 20. |