Here are the skies, the planets seven,
    And all the starry train:
Content you with the mimic heaven,
    And on the earth remain.

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Text Authorship:

• by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in Additional Poems, no. 5, first published 1939 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-03-04
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