A star is gone! a star is gone! 
There is a blank in Heaven; 
One of the cherub choir has done 
His airy course this even. 

He sat upon the orb of fire 
That hung for ages there, 
And lent his music to the choir 
That haunts the nightly air. 

But when his thousand years are pass'd, 
With a cherubic sigh 
He vanish'd with his car at last, 
For even cherubs die! 

Hear how his angel-brothers mourn - 
The minstrels of the spheres - 
Each chiming sadly in his turn 
And dropping splendid tears. 

The planetary sisters all 
Join in the fatal song, 
And weep this hapless brother's fall, 
Who sang with them so long. 

But deepest of the choral band 
The Lunar Spirit sings, 
And with a bass-according hand 
Sweeps all her sullen strings. 

From the deep chambers of the dome 
Where sleepless Uriel lies, 
His rude harmonic thunders come 
Mingled with mighty sighs. 

The thousand car-bourne cherubim, 
The wandering eleven, 
All join to chant the dirge of him 
Who fell just now from Heaven.