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The beautiful and slender young New Moon, / In trailing robes of pink and palest blue, / Swept close to Venus, and breathed low: "A boon / A precious boon, I ask, dear friend, of you.
"O queen of light and beauty, you have known / The pangs of love -- its passions and alarms; / Then grant me this one favor, let my own -- / My lost Old Moon be once more in my arms."
Swift thro' the vapors and the golden mist -- / The Full Moon's shadowy shape shone on the night, / The New Moon reached out clasping arms and kissed / Her phantom lover in the whole world's sight.