Let Zeus Record : Stars Wheel in Purple, , Let Zeus Record, Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961 Stars wheel in purple, yours is not so rare as Hesperus, nor yet so great a star as bright Aldeboran or Sirius, nor yet the stained and brilliant one of War ; stars turn in purple, glorious to the sight ; yours is not gracious as the Pleiads are nor as Orion's sapphires, luminous ; yet disenchanted, cold, imperious face, when all the others blighted, reel and fall, your star, steel-set, keeps lone and frigid tryst to freighted ships, baffled in wind and blast.