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A STAR COMES SINGING
A chilling cinder of a worldScatters, eyeless and tongueless,Through the field of dead stars.Tomorrow the young godWill go as his world has gone.
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Tomorrow
As the whirling globe spins upwardWhat new shifts will it see,Before rock and dust decay,And its spiral flight is stilledIn the breast of its mother, the sun?
Out of the blood-dewed pastMan yet may learn.The odor of slaughtered bloodHas stained uncounted ages.Will it learn the wonder of love,Sole bringer of radiant joyOver the blackened milesAnd blackened hearts?
For love is the divinest selfishness,

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