The poetic depths of the universe

"Below lay stretched the boundless universe!
There, far as the remotest line
That limits swift imagination's flight.
Unending orbs mingled in mazy motion,
Immutably fulfilling
Eternal Nature's law.
Above, below, around,
The circling systems formed
A wilderness of harmony.
Each with undeviating aim
In eloquent silence through the depths of space
Pursued its wondrous way."

Percy Bysshe Shelley,
"The Daemon of the World,"
which appears on the first page
of George Ellery Hale's
"Depths of the Universe,"
published in 1924.