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I: By one whose heart kept watch was heard the fame / Of a bright world that, like a ship of war, / Was launched in heaven beside the last that came / O'er the sky's outer bar: / Her land Chaldea, she that blessed name / Gave to the coming star.
II: Child of a lord, they called on her to reign / O'er that old story-land whose shepherds deem / The stars a flock that studs a holy plain; / And she had learned in dream / That her loved land, through her, that star should gain / And with its blessings teem.