LOVE IS A STAR.
What is more subtle than love, Easing of mind and of heart, Sent by the gods from above, Making the warm blood to start. Peace to descend like a dove ; What is more subtle than love? Love is a star We reach for in vain ! Stars when they fall Arise not again.
What is more cursed than love, Robbing the great world of rest, Sent by some devil to prove Each woman’s oath but a jest, Each woman’s face but a snare, Set in its meshes of hair ? Love is a star We reach for in vain ! Stars when they fall Arise not again.
What is more certain than this, No man has gone down to his death, Unknown to some fond woman's kiss : Some sudden, quick pulsing of breath, Ere he grows to the dust and the clay, Ere he quits the fair portals of day. Love is a star We reach for in vain ! Stars when they fall Arise not again.
Let me say of a great man who lives, Since life is as certain a» fate, Asking every emotion earth gives, Asking love for its joys, or it hate ; 'Twere better life were not too long Lest he live till the end of the song Closes in on the weary refrain : * Lost stars may not kindle again.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 28, 11 July 1891, Page 150
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224LOVE IS A STAR. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 28, 11 July 1891, Page 150
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