A star is gone! a star is gone! <br />There is a blank in Heaven; <br />One of the cherub choir has done <br />His airy course this even. <br /> <br />He sat upon the orb of fire <br />That hung for ages there, <br />And lent his music to the choir <br />That haunts the nightly air. <br /> <br />But when his thousand years are pass'd, <br />With a cherubic sigh <br />He vanish'd with his car at last, <br />For even cherubs die! <br /> <br />Hear how his angel-brothers mourn - <br />The minstrels of the spheres - <br />Each chiming sadly in his turn <br />And dropping splendid tears. <br /> <br />The planetary sisters all <br />Join in the fatal song, <br />And weep this hapless brother's fall, <br />Who sang with them so long. <br /> <br />But deepest of the choral band <br />The Lunar Spirit sings, <br />And with a bass-according hand <br />Sweeps all her sullen strings. <br /> <br />From the deep chambers of the dome <br />Where sleepless Uriel lies, <br />His rude harmonic thunders come <br />Mingled with mighty sighs. <br /> <br />The thousand car-bourne cherubim, <br />The wandering eleven, <br />All join to chant the dirge of him <br />Who fell just now from Heaven.<br /><br />George Darley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-fallen-star/
