ORIGINAL POETRY. 
THE LUMINOUS ARCH, 
That appeared in the Heavens on the night of the 29th 
of September, 1828. 
BY MISS SUSANNAH STRICKLAND. 
Vision of beauty, 
There floats not a cloud 
O’er the blue vault of heaven, 
Thy glory to shroud ! 
The star-gemm’d horizon 
Thou spannest sublime, 
Like the path to a better 
And lovelier clime. 
Thy light, unreflected 
By planet or star, 
Still widens, and brightens, 
Round Night’s spangled car ; 
In radiance resembling 
The Moon’s placid beam, 
When she smiles through the soft mist 
That floats on the stream ! 
