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<center>Two [[Passion|lovers]] to a midnight meadow came</center> | <center>Two [[Passion|lovers]] to a midnight meadow came</center> | ||
<center>High in the hills, to lie there hand and hand</center> | <center>High in the hills, to lie there hand and hand</center> | ||
− | <center>Like effigies and look up at the stars,</center> | + | <center>Like effigies and look up at the [[stars]],</center> |
<center>The never-setting ones set in the North</center> | <center>The never-setting ones set in the North</center> | ||
<center>To [[circle]] the Pole in idiot [[majesty]],</center> | <center>To [[circle]] the Pole in idiot [[majesty]],</center> | ||
− | <center>And what was given them to wonder.</center> | + | <center>And what was given them to [[wonder]].</center> |
<center>Being amateurs, they knew some of the [[names]]</center> | <center>Being amateurs, they knew some of the [[names]]</center> | ||
− | <center>By rote, and could attach the names to stars</center> | + | <center>By rote, and could attach the [[names]] to stars</center> |
<center>And draw the lines [[invisible]] between</center> | <center>And draw the lines [[invisible]] between</center> | ||
<center>That [[humbled]] all the [[heaven]]ly [[things]] to farm</center> | <center>That [[humbled]] all the [[heaven]]ly [[things]] to farm</center> | ||
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− | <center>Could wonder at the [[shadow]] of the world</center> | + | <center>Could [[wonder]] at the [[shadow]] of the world</center> |
<center>That brought those lights to [[light]], could wonder too</center> | <center>That brought those lights to [[light]], could wonder too</center> | ||
− | <center>At the ancestral eyes and the [[dark]] [[mind]]</center> | + | <center>At the [[ancestral]] eyes and the [[dark]] [[mind]]</center> |
<center>Behind them that had reached the length of light</center> | <center>Behind them that had reached the length of light</center> | ||
− | <center>To name the stars and draw the [[animal]]s</center> | + | <center>To name the [[stars]] and draw the [[animal]]s</center> |
<center>And other stuff that dangled in the height,</center> | <center>And other stuff that dangled in the height,</center> | ||
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<center>Or was it the [[fathom|deep]]? Did they look in</center> | <center>Or was it the [[fathom|deep]]? Did they look in</center> | ||
<center>Or out, the lovers? till they grew bored</center> | <center>Or out, the lovers? till they grew bored</center> | ||
− | <center>As even | + | <center>As even [[love]]rs will, and got up to go,</center> |
<center>But drunken now, with staggering and dizziness,</center> | <center>But drunken now, with staggering and dizziness,</center> | ||
<center>Because the [[Gospel|spell]] of [[earth]] had moved them so,</center> | <center>Because the [[Gospel|spell]] of [[earth]] had moved them so,</center> | ||
− | <center>Hallucinating that the heavens [[Motion|moved]].</center> | + | <center>Hallucinating that the [[heavens]] [[Motion|moved]].</center> |
− | + | <center>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_nemerov Howard Nemerov]</center> | |
[[Category: Poetry]] | [[Category: Poetry]] |
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