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A STAR.

The moon lies still beneath the trees,
And silver-spots the sleeping moss,
And touches with a ghostly gloss
The leaves unwakened by the breeze.
A silence as of myriad swoons
Drives in my feelings to their deeps,
Where still more awful silence sleeps,
Mid lights more ghostly than the moon's.

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From th' eastward, through a leafy rent,
Flashes across the moony sleep
One star upon my inmost deep,
Voicing the silence therein pent.
With holy glances, diamond-hued,
About my flickering lights it winds,
And all my finite tossings binds
To fixtures of infinitude.