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The sun was black with judgment, and the moon / Blood: but between / I saw a man stand, saying, 'To me at least / The grass is green.
'There was no star that I forgot to fear / With love and wonder. / The birds have loved me'; but no answer came -- / Only the thunder.
Once more the man stood, saying, 'A cottage door, / Wherethrough I gazed / That instant as I turned -- yea, I am vile; / Yet my eyes blazed.
'For I had weighed the mountains in a balance, / And the skies in a scale, / I come to sell the stars -- old lamps for new -- / Old stars for sale.'
Then a calm voice fell all the thunder through, / A tone less rough: / 'Thou hast begun to love one of my works / Almost enough. '