Wings of silver

Chapter 6: THE SONG OF THE STARS

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The collection presents spiritual and nature-centered lyric poems that use images of flight, birds, and weaving to explore life, faith, and immortality. Through meditations on growth, seasons, and the soul's ascent, the verses celebrate love, the transformative power of prayer and perseverance, and the letting-go that opens the heart. Several poems personify life and the weaver figure to contrast selfish ambition with loving creation, while invocations to the sky and stars urge trust in a transcendent presence. Tone alternates between contemplative exhortation and hopeful consolation, with recurring motifs of wings, dawn, and renewal framing a steady emphasis on spiritual uplift and inner victory.

THE SONG OF THE STARS

On, on we roll through trackless space

While centuries sweep by,

Each in our own appointed place

In God’s eternal sky.

Immortal Man, sleep-bound on earth,

The Mind that guides us gave thee birth.

Obey in awe

Life’s changeless law!

The Hand that holds us in our course,—

Omnipotent, Divine,

Omniscient Love, Life’s only source,—

Created thee sublime.

The stars shall fade and cease to be;

But Man reflects Infinity.

Through space afar,

Star echoes star:—

O Quenchless Flame,

To thee we bow.

Awake, Man! Claim

Thy birthright now;

Life calls thy name,—

God’s image thou!

Fore’er we sing

As on we roll,

Of Life the King,—

Man’s deathless soul.

Eternal harmony is thine;

Obey God’s law—arise, and shine!