Sarah Williams
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"Sarah Williams" (1837–1868) was an England/English poet, most famous as the author of "The Old Astronomer", also known as "The Old Astronomer to His Pupil".

A segment of her poem_Best Loved Poems of the American People_, Hazel Felleman, ed.

Garden City Publishing Co., Garden City NY: 1936, pp. 613-614 is used in the introduction to Ian Rankin's novel Set in Darkness.

:Though my soul may set in darkness,

::it will rise in perfect light.

:I have loved the stars too fondly

::to be fearful of the night.

The line "I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night" has often been incorrectly attributed to Galileo.

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It's incredible. I was totally blown away when I was told it was $15,000 at the end of the night (of the event). Then hearing that it's more, I can never express my gratitude to the people.

Briana is using it to go to college. I am probably, in a year and a half, going to the graduate school.

Not so, not so, no load of woeNeed bring despairing frown;For while we bear it, we can bear,Past that, we lay it down.

We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

This is something that has been in the works for a while and is something the state would want to purchase even if nothing was going on with Cecil Field.

I have good friends who live up here, who have been trying to get me to move up here for two years. It looks like a good place to raise a family, and I have a 2-year-old, so I'm going to stay here.

It's been cleared but now security says everything is fine.

I thought high school was the best four years of my life, until I came to BC.