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To Jane: 'The Keen Stars Were Twinkling'.

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1.     The keen stars were twinkling,     And the fair moon was rising among them,     Dear Jane!     The guitar was tinkling,     But the notes were not sweet till you sung them     Again.     2.     As the moon's soft splendour     O'er the faint cold starlight of Heaven     Is thrown,     So your voice most tender     To the strings without soul had then given     Its own.     3.     The stars will awaken,     Though the moon sleep a full hour later,     To-night;     No leaf will be shaken     Whilst the dews of your melody scatter     Delight.     4.     Though the sound overpowers,     Sing again, with your dear voice revealing     A tone     Of some world far from ours,     Where music and moonlight and feeling     Are one.

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