'A sun, a shadow of a magnitude,' <br />So Keats has written- yet what, truly, could <br />Come closer to pure godhead than a sun, <br />Which is a star! Ours not the only one, <br />But ours, but nearer, so that we can say <br />We live by starlight the night takes away, <br />Leaving us many stars in place of one <br />Yet with less starlight than there was by day <br />Before that nearer, brighter, star had gone- <br />And if those others seem too far away, <br />Too high to care, remember: All we are, <br />All that we have, is given us by a star.<br /><br />John Hall Wheelock<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-sun-which-is-a-star/
