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My Star

by Robert Browning

Victorian · Short · 13 linesnaturenight

All that I know Of a certain star Is, it can throw (Like the angled spar) Now a dart of red, Now a dart of blue; Till my friends have said They would fain see, too, My star that dartles the red and the blue! Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled: They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it. What matter to me if their star is a world? Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.

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Public domain. Source: PoetryDB. Reproduced verbatim; see theanthology for the full collection.

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