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1865–1904

Starlight

Violet Nicolson

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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