Classic Poem

Befriending star, low hung above the mountain gloom,
Empower my human frailty to conceive you kind:
Be only what these earth-homed eyes behold, for whom
Aeonian-rapt remoteness overwhelms the mind.

Withdraw, while watched by me, your magnitude—your dire
Unmeaningness for man. Heart-simplified, appear
Not in ferocity of elemental fire,
But, for my lowly faith, a sign by which to steer.