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"Last night I saw the Pleiades again, Faint as a drift of steam From some tall chimney-stack;"
"Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion."
"Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south."
"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?"
"It behoveth you to seek agreement and to be united; it behoveth you to be in close communion one with the other, at one both in body and soul, till ye match the Pleiades or a string of lustrous pearls."
"Pleiades callin' her home Seven Sisters, she hears her distant Sisters."
"Our shells clacked on the plates. My tongue was a filling estuary, My palate hung with starlight: As I tasted the salty Pleiades Orion dipped his foot into the water."
"Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades?"
"The Pleiades are an extraordinarily beautiful and brilliant star cluster in the constellation of Taurus. I have a large picture of them hanging in my recording studio, and sometimes when I look at this picture, I am inspired to compose a certain kind of music, which is very different from the music I usually compose, and very different from anything I have ever heard before. This album is a collection of those pieces.;"
"Though all I knew of the rote universe were those Pleiades, loosed in December, I promised you I'd set them to verse, so I'd always remember"
"Can I get two maybe even three of these, Comin' from a space to teach you of the Pleiades."
"Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid."
"The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious, They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition, Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge, They are immortal…"
"Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter Longer than sun or any revolving satellite, Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades."