THE STORY OF ORION AND TAURUS, THE BULL
knows the name of a star or two, one will find, as in "The Wanderer," a comradeship that is comforting.
Bayard Taylor, who often wrote about the stars, looked up, in a foreign land, and saw "Above the palms, the peaks of pearly gray," _-_figure_129.jpg)
Relative positions of the constellations "grouped about the pole," those appearing in "the story of Andromeda," the "Spring and Summer Pageant," and the "story of Orion and Taurus, the Bull."Canopus, a star of the southern hemisphere, only surpassed by Sirius.
"An urn of light, a golden-hearted torch,
Voluptuous, drowsy-throbbing mid the stars,
As, incense-fed, from Aphrodite's porch
Lifted to beacon Mars."
Voluptuous, drowsy-throbbing mid the stars,
As, incense-fed, from Aphrodite's porch
Lifted to beacon Mars."
Then—
"Ah, bliss to lie beside the jasper urn
Of founts, and through the open arabesque
To watch Canopus burn!"
Of founts, and through the open arabesque
To watch Canopus burn!"
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