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Yon circling orbs which deck the mystic sky,
Shedding their influence like fair hopes down
For ever as they gleam resplendently,
The stately night with chastest beauty crown !

But as the admiring vision still surveys
Attractiveness that captivates the soul,
No special star its loveliness displays
Amid the radiant universal whole ;

Thus in history's page, while greatly shine
Full many heroes whose not unmatch'd deeds
Grandly appear, for glories ne'er decline,
The mind no isolated splendour heeds ;
But if the Muse could e'er delighted stay,
O'er Codrus, as from Sol, would fall her brightest ray.