<HTML><BODY STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=head>All this talk of the night skies leads me inevitably to poetry (once an English professor, always an English professor):</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=head></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=head> The Starlight Night</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=head> Gerard Manley Hopkins</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=head></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=head>Look up at the stars! look, look up at the skies! </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=line>O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!</SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=line>The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!</SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=line>Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves'-eyes!</SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=line>The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies!</SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=line>Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare!</SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=line>Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare! --</SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=line>Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize.</SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=head><BR></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=line>Buy then! bid then! -- What? -- Prayer, patience, alms, vows.</SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=line>Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs!</SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=line>Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows!</SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=line>These are indeed the barn; withindoors house</SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=line>The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse</SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=line>Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.</SPAN> </DIV></SPAN> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=head></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=head>Best,</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=head></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=a><SPAN class=head>Melynda Huskey</SPAN></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML><br clear=all><hr>Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : <a href='http://explorer.msn.com'>http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></p>