So far it is athwart the blue <br />To where yon star appears, <br />That for its light to reach our view <br />Has needed thousand years. <br /> <br />Maybe that ages gone it shed <br />Its glow, then languished in the skies, <br />Yet only now its rays have sped <br />Their journey to our eyes. <br /> <br />The icon of the star that died <br />Slowly the vault ascended; <br />Time was ere it could first be spied, <br />We see now what is ended. <br /> <br />So is it when our love’s aspire <br />Is hid beneath night’s bowl, <br />The gleam of its extinguished fire <br />Enkindles yet our soul. <br /> <br />(Translated by Corneliu M. Popescu)<br /><br />Mihai Eminescu<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-the-star/
