TO NORTHROP FRYE

                      


    Night gazer, see the works that fill the skies.

    Each orb was placed there by some humble hand.

    Yet even while their brilliance mystifies,

    You wonder what each wise creator planned.

    Above spot Ovid's Venus, Homer's Mars.

    See Sidney's Stella, Chaucer's Milky Way.

    Spy Spenser's Queene, Milton's ringing stars

    And Shakespeare's Zodiac in bright array.

    Through Galileo's eye you clearly see

    The full design, as seasons cycle true.

    Our minds must order.  Your task is to chart

    The form of heaven's great anatomy;

    For with your cosmic vision vast you view

    The ever-growing galaxy of art.

 

 

 

Reviews

[TLK]

The music of the spheres rings true here.