Ye quenchless stars! so eloquently bright; Untroubled sentries of the shadowy _night_, While half the world is lapp’d in blissful dreams, And round the lattice creep your fairy beams, How sweet to gaze upon those placid eyes, In lambent beauty looking from the skies! And when, oblivious of the world, we stray At dead of _night_ along some noiseless way, How the heart mingles with a moon-lit hour, And feels from heaven a sympathetic power! See! not a cloud careers yon pathless deep Of molten azure,--mute as lovely sleep; Full in her pallid light the moon presides, Shrined in a halo, mellowing as she rides; And far around, the forest and the stream Wear the rich garment of her woven beam. The lull’d winds, too, are sleeping in her caves, No stormy prelude rolls upon the waves; Nature is hush’d, as if her works ador’d, Still’d into homage of her living Lord! _R. Montgomery._ O, blessed _Night_! that comes to rich and poor Alike; bringing us dreams that lure Our hearts to One above! _Henry B. Hirst._ Clouds and thick darkness are thy throne, Thy wonderful pavilion; O, dart from thence a shining ray, And then my _midnight_ shall be day! _Thomas Flatman._ OBEDIENCE--DISOBEDIENCE. For as by one man’s _disobedience_ many were made sinners, so by the _obedience_ of one shall many be made righteous.--Romans, v. 19. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to _obey_, his servants ye are to whom ye _obey_; whether of sin unto death, or of _obedience_ unto righteousness?--Romans, vi. 16. Though He were a Son, yet learned He _obedience_ by the things which He suffered.--Hebrews, v. 8. The will of heav’n Be done in this and all things! I _obey_. _Shakspere._