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In that great journey of the stars through space / About the mighty, all-directing Sun, / The pallid, faithful Moon has been the one / Companion of the Earth. Her tender face, / Pale with the swift, keen purpose of that race / Which at Time's natal hour was first begun, / Shines ever on her lover as they run / And lights his orbit with her silvery smile.
Sometimes such passionate love doth in her rise, / Down from her beaten path she softly slips, / And with her mantle veils the Sun's bold eyes, / Then in the gloaming finds her lover's lips. / While far and near the men our world call wise / See only that the Sun is in eclipse.