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(1851) [MARC] Author: H. C. Andersen
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dust, and yet a star under stars. That long
column of worlds thou callest thy starry
firmament, revolves like the myriads of grains of
dust, visibly hovering in the sunbeam’s revolving
column, from the crevice in the wall into that
dark space. But still more distant stands the
milky way’s whitish mist, a new starry heaven,
each column but a radius in the wheel! But
how great is this itself! how many radii thus
go out from the central point – God!

So far does thine eye reach, so clear is thine
age’s horizon! Son of time, choose, who shall
be thy companion? Here is thy new career!
with the greatest of thy time, fly thou before
thy time’s generation! Like twinkling Lucifer,
shine thou in time’s roseate morn.

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Yes, in knowledge lies Poetry’s California!
Every one who only looks backward, and not
clearly forward, will, however high and honourably
he stands, say, that if such riches lie in
knowledge, they would long since have been

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