Let no man say that this or that law, or operation of nature, were better changed, until he can fathom the designs of God; till he can create a planet, and send it on its everlasting round; till he can place a star in the firmament; till he can breathe upon a statue, the workmanship of his own hands, and be obeyed when he commands it to walk forth a thing of life; till he can dip his hand into chaos and throw off worlds.

The world of thoughts and forms in which he lived habitually is too arid, like an extinct planet, tenanted by mighty elemental beings with little human left to them but visionary Titan-shapes, too vast and void for common minds to dwell in pleasurably.

Was his existence merely in the poet's brain, or did he walk this planet somewhere,and when?

Bede tells us, "Archbishop Theodore, when (in the seventh century) he gave lectures on medicine at Canterbury, remonstrated against bleeding on the 4th day of the moon, since at that period (he said) the light of the planet and the tides of the ocean were on the increase."

Miss Penelope was in her accustomed place, which she could no more get away from than a planet could leave its orbit.

8m. Venus is in aphelio on the 18th, and in conjunction with the planet Herschel on the 28th at 9 h. evening; she sets on the 1st at 4 h. 48 m., and on the 31st at 5-1/2 h. evening.

That the whirling spheres are made for man I disbelieve, but on this planet, and in our ken, he is the object we most prize, and rightfully.

I believed in an all inclusive nature; that the Will or Rule of God which made a star hundreds of millions of times larger than the planet I had my body on, that took care of billions of suns, worlds, planets, comets, and the beings upon them, was not concerned in tricks of spiritism or materializations at the whim of mediums or tahuas.

ADAM'IDA, a planet on which reside the unborn spirits of saints, martyrs, and believers.

U'riel, the angel of the sun, was ordered at the crucifixion to interpose this planet between the sun and the earth, so as to produce a total eclipse.

She was loved by the seraph Samias'a, and like her sister was carried off to another planet when the Flood came.

By this simple toy affair I have often picked up the planet Venus at midday when visible to the naked eye.

After health, indeed, the other necessaries of life are very simple, and easily obtained;with moderate desires, regular employment, a loving home, correct theology, the right politics, and a year's subscription to the "Atlantic Monthly," I have no doubt that life, in this planet, may be as happy as in any other of the solar system, not excepting Neptune and the fifty-five asteroids.

The sea is breaking in long swells below the window, and a glorious planet shines in the place of the sunset that has died away.

I am, besides, oppressed by the feeling that I am cut off from the world, as effectually as though I were no longer upon our planet,for I know nothing of what is going on outside.

There are man-comets, splendid, flashing, unsubstantial, who sweep into the zones of attraction of all the planet sisterhood; but better, if one cannot have a sun all to oneself, is a little cold moon for the companion intimate....

The perfume came in continuous, successive waves, rolling out upon the infinite with a mysterious palpitation, transfiguring the country, imparting to it a feeling of supernaturalnessthe vision of a better world, of a distant planet where men feed on perfume and live in eternal poetry.

And if the planet, on the which thou livest And hast thy dwelling, from its orbit starts, It is not in thy choice whether or no Thou'lt follow it.

He had known many women of all colorswhite, red, yellow, and bronzebut only once had he really been in love, very far away on the other side of the planet, in the port of Valparaiso.

(In Planet stories, winter 1940)

(In Planet stories, summer 1940)

This amazing planet.

(In Planet stories, spring 1941)

(In Planet stories, summer '41) © 14Apr41; B495271.

Her beauty makes each planet desire her as companion.