Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 317
THE PLANET VENUS By AGNES M. CLERKE. HESPERUS AND PHOSPHOR. … T HE radiant planet that hangson the skirts of dusk anddawn, like a jewel in an Ethiops ear, has been known and sung by poets inall ages. Its supremacy over the re-mainder of the starry host is recog-nized in the name given it by theArabs, those nomad watchers of theskies, for while they term the…
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