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THE ORDER OF THE STAR OF INDIA. (2) - ZaunköniG - 26.12.2010 THE ORDER OF THE STAR OF INDIA. ' The Star of India !' 'tis a goodly name- Due to a fuller honour, purer love, Than we, defaulters to our trust, can claim : Yet sure its choice was prompted from above ; Part-offspring of our civil hopes and fears, Perchance its style is loftier than its birth ; But seen by wistful eyes thro' holy tears. It lengthens out its beam and lights the earth ; We hail it as the herald of the day, Earth's noblest badge, and knighthood's brightest prize; The spirit of Havelock, the pure and wise, Leans forward to salute it on its way — And sainted Heber, with a glad surprise Sees from Almorah's hill its rising ray. I dream'd—methought I stood upon a strand Unblest with day for ages ; and despair Had seized me, but for cooling airs that fann'd My forehead, and a voice that said ' Prepare !' Anon I felt a dawning was at hand ; A planet rose, whose light no cloud could mar. And made thro' all the landscape near and far, A wild half-morning for that dreary land ; I saw her seas come washing to the shore In sheets of gleaming ripples, wide and fair ; I saw her goodly rivers brimming o'er, And from their fruitful shallows look'd the star ; And all seem'd kiss'd with star-light ! till the beam Of sunrise broke and yet fulfill'd my dream. |