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Starlight

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O beautiful Stars, when you see me go         Hither and thither, in search of love,     Do you think me faithless, who gleam and glow         Serene and fixed in the blue above?          O Stars, so golden, it is not so.     But there is a garden I dare not see,         There is a place where I fear to go,     Since the charm and glory of life to me         The brown earth covered there, long ago.          O Stars, you saw it, you know, you know.     Hither and thither I wandering go,         With aimless haste and wearying fret;     In a search for pleasure and love?    Not so,         Seeking desperately to forget.          You see so many, O Stars, you know.

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