Charles Heavysege - Winter Skies lyrics

The stars are glittering in the frosty sky, Numerous as pebbles on a broad sea-coast; And o'er the vault the cloud-like galaxy Has marshalled its innumerable host. Alive all heaven seems! with wondrous glow Tenfold refulgent every star appears, As if some wide, celestial gale did blow, And thrice illume the ever-kindled spheres. Orbs, with glad orbs rejoicing, burning, beam Ray-crowned, with lambent lustre in their zones, Till o'er the blue, bespangled spaces seem Angels and great archangels on their thrones; A host divine, whose eyes are sparkling gems, And forms more bright than diamond diadems.