| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| | | Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947) |
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| 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, | 5 |
| And beam as one in the night. | |
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| And each forgot in the dream so strange | |
| How desolately far | |
| Swept on each path, for who shall change | |
| The orbit of a star? | 10 |
| Yea, all was a dream, and they still must go | |
| As lonely as they are. | |
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