How looks the night? There does not miss a star. 
The million sorts of unaccounted motes 
Now quicken, sheathed in the yellow galaxy. 
There is no parting or bare interstice 
Where the stint compass of a skylark's wings
Would not put out some tiny golden centre.

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• by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), no title, appears in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, first published 1948 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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