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/ I. A mile of moonlight and the whispering wood: / A mile of shadow and the odorous lane: / One large, white star above the solitude, / Like one sweet wish: and, laughter after pain, / Wild-roses wistful in a web of rain.
/ II. No star, no rose, to lesson him and lead; / No woodsman compass of the skies and rocks, -- / Tattooed of stars and lichens, -- doth love need / To guide him where, among the hollyhocks, / A blur of moonlight, gleam his sweetheart's locks.
/ III. We name it beauty -- that permitted part, / The love-elected apotheosis / Of Nature, which the god within the heart, / Just touching, makes immortal, but by this -- / A star, a rose, the memory of a kiss.