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Sorrows Of The Moon

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The moon tonight dreams vacantly, as if     She were a beauty cushioned at her rest     Who strokes with wandering hand her lifting     Nipples, and the contour of her breasts;     Lying as if for love, glazed by the soft     Luxurious avalanche, dying in swoons,     She turns her eyes to visions-clouds aloft     Billowing hugely, blossoming in blue.     When sometimes from her stupefying calm     On to this earth she drops a furtive tear     Pale as an opal, iridescent, rare,     The poet, sleepless watchman, is the one     To take it up within his hollowed palm     And in his heart to hide it from the sun.

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