{"id":44300,"date":"2014-11-22T22:42:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T04:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=44300"},"modified":"2021-06-03T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:20:16","slug":"manvotional-the-light-of-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manhood\/manvotional-the-light-of-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Manvotional: The Light of the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44301 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2014\/11\/4-14.jpg\" alt=\"Black white engraving solitary man standing along river night time.\" width=\"650\" height=\"445\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Light of Stars <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>From <em>Voices of the Night<\/em>, 1839<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The night is come, but not too soon;<br \/>\nAnd sinking silently,<br \/>\nAll silently, the little moon<br \/>\nDrops down behind the sky.<br \/>\nThere is no light in earth or heaven<br \/>\nBut the cold light of stars;<br \/>\nAnd the first watch of night is given<br \/>\nTo the red planet Mars.<br \/>\nIs it the tender star of love?<br \/>\nThe star of love and dreams?<br \/>\nO no! from that blue tent above,<br \/>\nA hero\u2019s armor gleams.<br \/>\nAnd earnest thoughts within me rise,<br \/>\nWhen I behold afar,<br \/>\nSuspended in the evening skies,<br \/>\nThe shield of that red star.<br \/>\nO star of strength! I see thee stand<br \/>\nAnd smile upon my pain;<br \/>\nThou beckonest with thy mailed hand,<br \/>\nAnd I am strong again.<br \/>\nWithin my breast there is no light<br \/>\nBut the cold light of stars;<br \/>\nI give the first watch of the night<br \/>\nTo the red planet Mars.<br \/>\nThe star of the unconquered will,<br \/>\nHe rises in my breast,<br \/>\nSerene, and resolute, and still,<br \/>\nAnd calm, and self-possessed.<br \/>\nAnd thou, too, whosoe\u2019er thou art,<br \/>\nThat readest this brief psalm,<br \/>\nAs one by one thy hopes depart,<br \/>\nBe resolute and calm.<br \/>\nO fear not in a world like this,<br \/>\nAnd thou shalt know erelong,<br \/>\nKnow how sublime a thing it is<br \/>\nTo suffer and be strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Light of Stars From Voices of the Night, 1839 By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The night is come, but not too soon; And sinking silently, All silently, the little moon Drops down behind the sky. There is no light in earth or heaven But the cold light of stars; And the first watch of night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,42272],"tags":[42295],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-44300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character","category-manhood","tag-manvotionals"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2014\/11\/4-14-538x280.jpg","rpwe-thumbnail":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2014\/11\/4-14-45x45.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123387,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44300\/revisions\/123387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44300"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}