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Stars of Our Night

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 21, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 51.

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Stars of Our Night

By WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN

WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN
OUT in the night when the stars are bright, And the air is calm and still, The sky is so clear that heaven seems near Its covenant to fulfil.
Return to the glare of the city’s dense air And the beacons appear but a few, For its gilded charms seek with the lights of the street To bedim all the gems in the blue.
Stars of our night are the promises bright With which God has bespangled our sky; In his atmosphere pure, naught of earth can allure, And we sense that his heaven is nigh.
Count the stars if you can, or fathom his plan For his children who dwell in the night! ’Tis a deep, boundless sea with a star canopy Till the dayspring appears to our sight.
Portland, Oregon.