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The Moon is like a ping pong ball	B
I lean against the orchard wall	B
And see it soar into the void	C
A silky sphere of celluloid	C
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Then fairy fire enkindles it	D
Like gossamer by taper lit	D
Until it glows above the trees	E
As mellow as a Cheddar cheese	E
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And up and up I watch it press	F
Into appalling loneliness	G
Like realms of ice without a stain	H
A corpse Moon come to life again	I
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Ruthless it drowns a sturdy star	J
That seeks its regal way to bar	J
Seeming with conscious power to grow	K
And sweeter purer gladder glow	K
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Dreaming serenely up the sky	A
Until exultantly on high	A
It shimmers with superb delight	L
The silver navel of the night	L
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II	A
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I have a compact to commune	M
A monthly midnight with the Moon	M
Into its face I stare and stare	N
And find sweet understanding there	N
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As quiet as a toad I sit	D
And tell my tale of days to it	D
The tessellated yarn I've spun	O
In thirty spells of star and sun	O
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And the Moon listens pensively	K
As placid as a lamb to me	P
Until I think there's just us two	Q
In silver world of mist and dew	Q
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In all of spangled space but I	A
To stare moon struck into the sky	A
Of billion beings I alone	R
To praise the Moon as still as stone	R
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And seal a bond between us two	Q
Closer than mortal ever knew	Q
For as mute masses I intone	R
The Moon is mine and mine alone	R
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III	A
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To know the Moon as few men may	S
One must be just a little fey	S
And for our friendship's sake I'm glad	T
That I am just a trifle mad	T
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And one with all the wild wise things	U
The furtive folk of fur and wings	U
That hold the Moon within their eyes	V
And make it nightly sacrifice	W
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O I will watch the maiden Moon	M
Dance on the sea with silver shoon	M
But with the Queen Moon I will keep	X
My tryst when all the world's asleep	X
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As I have kept by land and sea	P
That tryst for half a century	P
Entranced in sibylline suspense	Y
Beyond a world of common sense	Y
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Until one night the Moon alone	M
Will look upon a graven stone	M
I wonder will it miss me then	M
Its lover more than other men	M
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Or will my wistful ghost be there	N
Down ages dim to stare and stare	N
On silver nights without a stir	Z
The Moon's Eternal Worshipper	Z

Robert William Service

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