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BOOK OF VISIONS: THE LITTLE LIGHTS, by                    
First Line: Starred nights, white days and days of blue, each chasing each with
Last Line: Shall close my eyes on earth to the dancing of the little lights.
Subject(s): Death; France; Stars; Dead, The


Starred nights, white days and days of blue, each chasing each with gladsome
mirth above the changing shapes of Earth, soon I'll no longer gaze on you;

suns peeping through the leaves, to throw into the glade the tawny flames of
lamps, of hearths, and dancing chains of lights that set the streets aglow,

the flares from heaving barques that glance, the phosphor of an April sea, the
planets beaming over France, faint lights I loved so eagerly,

and you, the sweet, dear, trembling eyes, green rogues I did so much adore, I
shall behold your dance no more; I shall behold your dance no more;

loves little lights that cheered the dark, lights of France, gold core of
summer's husk -- tonight there comes a greedy spark to burn the dead leaf of the
dusk!

Death's mighty flame, whose golden worth so vastly all my soul invites that I
shall close my eyes on Earth to the dancing of the little lights.





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