star_--
"Fairest of stars, last in the train of Night,
If better, thou belongst not to the Dawn,
Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn
With thy bright circlet"--
which heralds the birth of the god _Sol_, the beneficent Saviour.
A glance at a geography of the heavens will show the "chaste, pure,
immaculate Virgin, suckling an infant," preceded by a _Star_, which
rises immediately preceding the Virgin and her child. This can truly be
called "_his Star_," which informed the "Wise Men," the
"Magi"--_Astrologers and Sun-worshipers_--and "the shepherds who watched
their flocks by night" that the Saviour of Mankind was about to be born.