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TO THE STARS THAT HAVE GONE OUT by AFANASI AFANASIEVICH FET

First Line: CURIOUS EYES OF THOSE BLUE SKYEY SPACES
Last Line: THE GHOST OF A SIGN TO THE GHOST OF A STAR THERE?

CURIOUS eyes of those blue skyey spaces,
Tell me how long shall your glimmer inspire me?
Long shall I feel, that in night's holy places
Nothing is nobler or fairer to fire me.

Quenched in some era forgotten, you may be
Nothing at all, though you still flame afar there;
-- This dead man's songs to you flying, shall they be
The ghost of a sign to the ghost of a star there?



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