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In the pure solitude of dusk / One star is set to shine / Above the sundown's dying rose, / A lamp before a shrine. / It is the star of Michael lit / In the minster of the sun, / That every toiling hand may give / Thanks for the day's work done.
For when the almighty word went forth / To bid creation be, -- / The glimmering star-tracks on the blue, / The tide-belts on the sea, -- / Perfect as planned, from Michael's hand / The lasting hills arose, / Their bases on the poppied plain, / Their peaks in bannered snows.