  There was a night when you and I Looked up from where we lay, When we were children, and the sky Was not so far away. We looked towards the deep dark blue Beyond our window bars, And into all our dreaming drew The spirit of the stars. We did not see the world asleep— We were already there! We did not find the way so steep To climb that starry stair. And faint at first and fitfully, Then sweet and shrill and near, We heard the eternal harmony That only angels hear; And many a hue of many a gem We found for you to wear, And many a shining diadem To bind about your hair. We saw beneath us faint and far The little cloudlets strewn, And I became a wandering star, And you became my moon. Ah! have you found our starry skies? Where are you all the years? Oh, moon of many memories! Oh, star of many tears! |
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