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For Lincoln MacVeagh	A
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Never tell me that not one star of all	B
That slip from heaven at night and softly fall	B
Has been picked up with stones to build a wall	B
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Some laborer found one faded and stone cold	C
And saving that its weight suggested gold	C
And tugged it from his first too certain hold	C
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He noticed nothing in it to remark	D
He was not used to handling stars thrown dark	D
And lifeless from an interrupted arc	D
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He did not recognize in that smooth coal	E
The one thing palpable besides the soul	E
To penetrate the air in which we roll	E
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He did not see how like a flying thing	F
It brooded ant eggs and bad one large wing	F
One not so large for flying in a ring	F
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And a long Bird of Paradise's tail	G
Though these when not in use to fly and trail	G
It drew back in its body like a snail	G
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Nor know that be might move it from the spot	H
The harm was done from having been star shot	H
The very nature of the soil was hot	H
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And burning to yield flowers instead of grain	I
Flowers fanned and not put out by all the rain	I
Poured on them by his prayers prayed in vain	I
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He moved it roughly with an iron bar	J
He loaded an old stoneboat with the star	J
And not as you might think a flying car	J
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Such as even poets would admit perforce	K
More practical than Pegasus the horse	K
If it could put a star back in its course	K
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He dragged it through the plowed ground at a pace	L
But faintly reminiscent of the race	L
Of jostling rock in interstellar space	L
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It went for building stone and I as though	M
Commanded in a dream forever go	M
To right the wrong that this should have been so	M
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Yet ask where else it could have gone as well	N
I do not know I cannot stop to tell	N
He might have left it lying where it fell	N
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From following walls I never lift my eye	O
Except at night to places in the sky	O
Where showers of charted meteors let fly	O
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Some may know what they seek in school and church	P
And why they seek it there for what I search	P
I must go measuring stone walls perch on perch	P
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Sure that though not a star of death and birth	Q
So not to be compared perhaps in worth	Q
To such resorts of life as Mars and Earth	Q
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Though not I say a star of death and sin	R
It yet has poles and only needs a spin	R
To show its worldly nature and begin	R
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To chafe and shuffle in my calloused palm	S
And run off in strange tangents with my arm	T
As fish do with the line in first alarm	T
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Such as it is it promises the prize	U
Of the one world complete in any size	U
That I am like to compass fool or wise	U

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