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(To Maria Mitchell)
In those eyes, dark as pools, the morning star / Must have lain long; on that calm breadth of brow / Must have been set some nobleness of vow / To distance and to space and all things far. / A little narrow street enshrines her now, / But through the world her planet pathways are / Blazed with her name; the constellate gates un-pbar / To those who, following, her star-cairns know. / Woman, who walked with Science to mark the lights / Along dark ways, thy luminous steps are dim; / Rapt on ethereal roads of satellites: / Art gazing still through space beyond the brim / Of sparkling nebula meadows to the nights / Of some New Radiance o'er still farther Rim?