Sirius

'Since Sinus crossed the Milky Way, sixty thousand years have gone.' - GARRETT P. SERVISS.     Since Sirius crossed the Milky Way          Full sixty thousand years have gone,     Yet hour by hour, and day by day,          This tireless star speeds on and on.     Methinks he must be moved to mirth          By that droll tale of Genesis,     Which says creation had its birth          For such a puny world as this.     To hear how One who fashioned all          Those Solar Systems, tier on tiers,     Expressed in little Adam's fall          The purpose of a million spheres.     And, witness of the endless plan,          To splendid wrath he must be wrought     By pigmy creeds presumptuous man          Sends forth as God's primeval thought.     Perchance from half a hundred stars          He hears as many curious things;     From Venus, Jupiter and Mars,          And Saturn with the beauteous rings,     There may be students of the Cause          Who send their revelations out,     And formulate their codes of laws,          With heavens for faith and hells for doubt.     On planets old ere form or place          Was lent to earth, may dwell - who knows -     A God-like and perfected race          That hails great Sirius as he goes.     In zones that circle moon and sun,          'Twixt world and world, he may see souls     Whose span of earthly life is done,          Still journeying up to higher goals.     And on dead planets grey and cold          Grim spectral souls, that harboured hate     Life after life, he may behold          Descending to a darker fate.     And on his grand majestic course          He may have caught one glorious sight     Of that vast shining central Source          From which proceeds all Life, all Light.     Since Sirius crossed the Milky Way          Full sixty thousand years have gone,     No mortal man may bid him stay,          No mortal man may speed him on.     No mortal mind may comprehend          What is beyond, what was before;     To God be glory without end,          Let man be humble and adore.