{"collection":"astro","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/astro/ml/ml01.htm","path":"astro/ml/ml01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/astro/ml/ml01.htm","text":"Moon Lore, by Timothy Harley, [1885]\n\"I beheld the moon walking in brightness.\"--Job xxxi. 26.\n\"The moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained.\"--Psalm viii. 3.\nWho is she that looketh forth, fair as the moon?\"--Solomon's Song vi. 10.\nThe precious things put forth by the moon.\"--Deuteronomy xxxiii. 14.\nSoon as the evening shades prevail,\n The moon takes up the wondrous tale.\"--Addison's Ode.\nIn fall-orbed glory, yonder moon Divine\n Rolls through the dark-blue depths.\"--Southey's Thalaba.\n\"Queen of the silver bow! by thy pale beam,\n \u00a0\u00a0Alone and pensive, I delight to stray,\n And watch thy shadow trembling in the stream,\n \u00a0\u00a0Or mark the floating clouds that cross thy way;\n And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light\n \u00a0\u00a0Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast:\n And oft I think-fair planet of the night--\n \u00a0\u00a0That in thy orb the wretched may have rest;\n The sufferers of the earth perhaps may go--\n \u00a0\u00a0Released by death-to thy benignant sphere;\n And the sad children of despair and woe\n \u00a0\u00a0Forget in thee their cup of sorrow here.\n Oh that I soon may reach thy world serene,\n \u00a0\u00a0Poor wearied pilgrim in this toiling scene!\"\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0--Charlotte Smith.","title":"Moon Lore: Quotations","type":"page"}