Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885, October 01, 1878, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textft I a&imtmmmmmtaiikiiti:M mmmmmammmit THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. -urOvn- Qul non Proflclt, Deficit. 'jnOun VOL. VII. OCTOBER, 1878. NO. 7. STAJtS AND MEN. "God's wheeling heuven" has ever been fraught witli the most intense interest to all mankind. The rnde, untutored child of the forest gazes into its infinite depths, and is awed and enraptured, and for the moment civilized. Wise men, of all ages, have spent their lives in discerning the face of the skj. It has inspired the grandest and most beautiful songs ever sung by poet. And the little babe in its mother's arms is hushed to sleep by this quaint old lulla by, " Sleep, baby sleep, The lnro atari nru the nhocp, The little onei aro the lambs I tiens, Anil the jjroat round inoun Is the shepherdess, Sleep bnby ulet'p." Whether we study the sky by day or by night, we find in it that which interests us intensely. The light of day revenls to us the ever changing forms of the lleecy, billowy clouds that stand out in bold re. lief against the deep bine of the distant sky. The fa.ied and broken moon that has lingered after the morning light has dawned, drifts among their lofty forms like a wrecked and deserted ship that is gradually sinking and losing in the sea of light that is Hooding half the world. Or as a huge pupa case from which the 1 light and life, gold and glory have depart ed. We marvel at the course of the sun, day after day, year after year, age after age, the same old journey. By night, the sky presents an entirely different aspect. Then the myriads of twinkling stars, like gleaming tapers held by angels' hands, dot the darkness that envelops every thin. And of all the. hosts that whir in space, none so interest men as do the stars. There is a bond of sympathy and similarity between him and them that exists between man and none other of the celestial bodies. We can liken men to stars for there is a re semblance between them. We cannot liken men to the sun or to the moon; to liken him to the former would not beap proprintc; to liken him to the latter would not be complimentary even if it were ap propriate. The moon is too solitary and sad, or else too cold and proud. Sometimes we see her afar oil in the deep blue vault of heaven, trying like 'a banished and hunted queen to hide from her pursuers behind the giant chains of the cragged cloud mountains. But even they cannot hi.de her glory for it rifts from between their lofty forms as she moves iu her grandeur among them. Again she is nearer to us but is so cold and proud we feel awed by her majesty. I J