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[What purpose rules the courses of the stars?]
What purpose rules the courses of the stars?What strength sustains us when we draw life's breath?
What wonders lie beyond our prison bars?
What visage hides behind the mask of death?
We think and think, but cannot find the clue:
We strain our eyes, but cannot pierce the veil:
From guess to guess life's meaning we pursue
Till thoughts' untiring pinions droop and fail.
Then from the dawn of love there comes a gleam
Of golden hope, a rose-flush of desire:
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Reads the world's riddle in that streak of fire;
Reads it while yet love's orb delays to rise;
Reads it while yet love's advent lights the skies.
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