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Oh! All things are long passed away and far. / A light is shining but the distant star / From which it still comes to me has been dead / A thousand years. In the dim phantom boat / That glided past some ghastly thing was said. / A clock just struck within some house remote. / Which house? -- I long to still my beating heart. / Beneath the sky's vast dome I long to pray. / Of all the stars there must be far away / A single star which still exists apart. / And I believe that I should know the one / Which has alone endured and which alone / Like a white City that all space commands / At the ray's end in the high heaven stands.