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Love Is a Star
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Love is a star that lights the night
Of life, and makes its fancies bright
As days of June with June's perfume;
A star that melts the clinging gloom
And makes the heart's dark chambers light.
Of life, and makes its fancies bright
As days of June with June's perfume;
A star that melts the clinging gloom
And makes the heart's dark chambers light.
To any depth, from any height
Its light doth leap; the dusk of doom
Could not its silver trace consume
Love is a star.
Its light doth leap; the dusk of doom
Could not its silver trace consume
Love is a star.
It shines undimmed, a beacon white
To Faith's unwavering, trustful sight.
'Mid warp and woof it findeth room
And weaves bright thoughts on Sorrow's loom
With lovestrung threads of pure delight.
Love is a star.
To Faith's unwavering, trustful sight.
'Mid warp and woof it findeth room
And weaves bright thoughts on Sorrow's loom
With lovestrung threads of pure delight.
Love is a star.
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