My Virtual Reading Room

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Faint reflection nebulae VdB 14 and VdB 15 in Camelopardalis http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=29452&start=200#p184646 Copyright: Milos Hroch
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I could not sleep for thinking of the sky,
The unending sky, with all its million suns
Which turn their planets everlastingly
In nothing, where the fire-haired comet runs.

If I could sail that nothing, I should cross
Silence and emptiness with dark stars passing,
Then, in the darkness, see a point of gloss
Burn to a glow, and glare, and keep amassing,

And rage into a sun with wandering planets
And drop behind, and then, as I proceed,
See his last light upon his last moon’s granites
Die to dark that would be night indeed.

Night where my soul might sail a million years
In nothing, not even death, not even tears.

(John Masefield)