by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
The infinite shining heavens
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The infinite shining heavens Rose, and I saw in the night Uncountable angel stars Showering sorrow and light. I saw them distant as heaven, Dumb and shining and dead, And the idle stars of the night Were dearer to me than bread. Night after night in my sorrow The stars stood over the sea, Till lo! I looked in the dusk And a star had come down to me.
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- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), no title, appears in Songs of Travel and other verses, no. 6 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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