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Is not time a pretty toy? Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals. Yonder mountain must migrate into your mind. The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion, "the portentous year of Mizar and Alcor," must come down and be dealt with in your household thought.
There are hours of silence and meditation when the great thought I am beats in upon the soul. But what am I? Whence came I? A heap of atoms in some strange human semblance is that all? And so many other heaps of atoms have already been, and passed away! Blown hither and thither where? The universe reels with change. Star-dust and earth-dust are alike in ceaseless whirl.
Like the star-dust of Saturn they belt our fourteen-acre planet, not with three rings, nor four, but with twelve, a ring for every month, a girdle of twelve shining circles running round the year the tinkling ice of February in the goblet of October! the apples of October red and ripe on what might have been April's empty platter!
The moonlight, released by his humped shadow, fell upon something sparkling, at which he leaped with a sudden thirst, and cried: "Gold! Jewels! They are mine." It was an iron casket, old and rusty, that he had raised. Within it, partly rusted to the case, the precious lustre to which he had devoted his life flashed out to the o'erspread arch of night, sown thick with star-dust.
The voice made them quite drowsy as they listened: The busy Dustman flutters down the lanes, He's off to gather star-dust for our dreams. For Fraulein, or for Baby, or for Mother, Or any other Who likes a bit of dust, But yet can do without it If they must! The busy Dustman hurries through the sky The kind old Dustman's coming to your eye!
An old- fashioned room and an old-fashioned mother and daughter the elder had seen life, knew its glories and its dangers, had tasted its sweetness and drained its cups of sorrow, but the child in her eyes was still the star-dust of the "trailing clouds of glory." "Mom," she asked suddenly as her mother unbraided the red hair and brushed it, "do you like Lyman Mertzheimer?" "Why yes " Mrs.
Scarcely less so, although after a different fashion, is the disclosure on plates exposed by Dr. Max Wolf, with a 5-inch lens, in June, 1891, of a vastly extended nebula, bringing some of the leading stars in Cygnus into apparently organic connection with the piles of galactic star-dust likewise involved by it.