The stars about the fair moon

in their turn hide their bright face

when she at about her full lights up all earth with silver.
(H.T. Wharton)

Planets, that around the beauteous moon
Attendant wait, cast into shade

Their ineffectual lustre, soon
As she, in full-orbed majesty arrayed,
Her silver radiance pours
Upon this world of ours.
(John Hermann Merivale)

The stars about the lovely moon
Fade back and vanish very soon,
When, round and full, her silver face
Swims into sight, and lights all space.
(Edwin Arnold, 1869.)

Stars that shine around the refulgent full moon
Pale, and hide their glory of lesser lustre
When she pours her silvery plenilunar
Light on the orbed earth.
(J. A. Symonds, 1883 )

'As the stars draw back their shining faces when they surround the fair moon in her silver fulness.'
(F. T. Palgrave)

Quoted by Eustathius of Thessalonica, late in the twelfth century, to illustrate the simile in the Iliad, viii. 551:--

        As when in heaven the stars about the moon
        Look beautiful.
        Tennyson.

Julian, about 350 A.D., says Sappho applied the epithet silver to the moon; wherefore Blomfield suggested its position here.

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