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ORBITS by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE

First Line: TWO STARS ONCE ON THEIR LONELY WAY
Last Line: AS LONELY AS THEY ARE.
Subject(s): STARS;
TWO stars once on their lonely way
Met in the heavenly height,
And they dreamed a dream they might shine alway
With undivided light;
Melt into one with a breathless throe,
And beam as one in the night.

And each forgot in the dream so strange
How desolately far
Swept on each path, for who shall change
The orbit of a star?
Yea, all was a dream, and they still must go
As lonely as they are.



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