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Last night I lay in an open field / And looked at the stars with lips sealed; / No noise moved the windless air, / And I looked at the stars with steady stare.
There were some that glittered and some that shone / With a soft and equal glow, and one / That queened it over the sprinkled round, / Swaying the host with silent sound.
"Calm things," I thought, "in your cavern blue, / I will learn and hold and master you; / I will yoke and scorn you as I can, / For the pride of my heart is the pride of a man."
Grass to my cheek in the dewy field / I lay quite still with lips sealed, / And the pride of a man and his rigid gaze / Stalked like swords on heaven's ways.
But through a sudden gate there stole / The Universe and spread in my soul; / Quick went my breath and quick my heart, / And I looked at the stars with lips apart.