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The Moon

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If the Moon had a hand     I wonder would she     Stretch it down unto me?     If she did, I would go     To her glacier land,     To her ice-covered strand.     I would run, I would fly,     Were the cold ever so,     And be warm in the snow.     O Moon of all Light,     Sailing far, sailing high     In the infinite sky.     Do not come down to me,     Lest I shriek in affright,     Lest I die in the night     Of your chill ecstasy.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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