It’s obvious by now that I love nothing better than to search through hundreds of videos on YouTube to find just the right piece for my Simple Sundays posts. Here is one I’m especially liking in light of the fact that we saw photographs of Jupiter this week. There is so much to space, to the Universe, that we are not aware of. We may not even be able to fathom it all with our human minds. But it surrounds us and fills our world with energy. The photos on this spectacular piece were photographed by Hubble and accompanied by words to a beautiful Robert Frost poem, “Choose Something Like A Star”. The music has a haunting quality that I find peaceful and calming. I hope you will as well! Scroll down to read the words to this work by one of our country’s most eloquent poets. Blessings to you on this new day and peace be with you and yours.
1874-1963“Choose Something
Like a Star”
(1916)
O Star (the fairest one in sight),
We grant your loftiness the right
To some obscurity of cloud �
It will not do to say of night,
Since dark is what brings out your light.
Some mystery becomes the proud.
But to be wholly taciturn
In your reserve is not allowed.
Say something to us we can learn
By heart and when alone repeat.
Say something! And it says “I burn.”
But say with what degree of heat.
Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.
Use language we can comprehend.
Tell us what elements you blend.
It gives us strangely little aid,
But does tell something in the end.
And steadfast as Keats’ Eremite,
Not even stooping from its sphere,
It asks a little of us here.
It asks of us a certain height,
So when at times the mob is swayed
To carry praise or blame too far,
We may choose something like a star
To stay our minds on and be staid.
