An Astrologer's Song
Rudyard Kipling
1865 to 1936
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To the Heavens above us
O look and behold
______ Planets that love us
All harnessed in gold!
What chariots, what horses
Against us shall bide
While the Stars ______ their courses
Do fight on our side?
All thought, ______ desires,
That are under the sun,
Are one with ______ fires,
As we also are one:
All matter, all spirit,
All fashion, all frame,
Receive and inherit
Their strength ______ the same.
(Oh, man that deniest
All power save ______ own,
Their power in the highest
Is mightily shown.
______ less in the lowest
That power is made clear.
Oh, man, if thou knowest,
What treasure is here!)
______ quakes in her throes
And we wonder for why!
______ the blind planet knows
When her ruler is nigh;
And, attuned since Creation
To perfect accord,
She thrills in ______ station
And yearns to her Lord.
The waters have risen,
The springs are unbound—
The floods break their prison,
______ ravin around.
No rampart withstands 'em,
Their fury will last,
Till the Sign that commands 'em
Sinks low or ______ past.
Through abysses unproven
And gulfs beyond thought,
Our ______ is woven,
Our burden is brought.
Yet They that ______ it,
Whose Nature we share,
Make us who must ______ it
Well able to bear.
Though terrors o'ertake us
We'll not be afraid.
No power can unmake us
Save ______ which has made.
Nor yet beyond reason
Or hope ______ we fall—
All things have their season,
And Mercy ______ all!
Then, doubt not, ye fearful—
The Eternal is King—
Up, heart, and be cheerful,
And lustily sing:—
What chariots, what horses
Against us shall bide
While the Stars ______ their courses
Do fight on our side?