Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand, Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy lethe.

The greater an object's mass, the greater its gravitational force. If a star could attain a certain mass --- say a million to 100 million times the mass of our own sun --- then its gravity would become 100 times as powerful as the forces generated by the strongest known nuclear reactions. Such a super superstar, in a normal course of its evolution, would contract..

For warlike Toil he leaves the gameful Wood, / And fleſht his Courage firſt in Saxon Blood.

The Henley branch, recently singled and fully track-circuited, is worked by acceptance lever between Twyford and Shiplake cabins.