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Queen of celestial beauty! Morning Star!

Accept a humble bard's untut'red lay;

To him, thy loveliness, surpasseth far

The silv'ry moon, and eke the God of day.

The world with all its pride cannot display

A form so fair, so beautiful as thine;

Its glories fade, its proudest beauties die;

But you fair star! as first created shine,

In never fading immortality!

Like vice, from virtue's glance, yon clouds retire,

Before the smile of one benignant ray,

Sleepless and sad, my soul would fain aspire,

Promethean like, to snatch ethereal fire,

And draw relief from thee! bright harbinger of day!