Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STARDUST, by ALICE WILBUR


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STARDUST, by                    
First Line: I loved a lad with summer eyes
Last Line: To a lad in far shanghai?
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


I loved a lad with summer eyes,
A sailor lad in blue.
He sailed away one winter day;
Now what am I to do?

He wrote to me from Singapore,
From Peiping and Shanghai;
And now the moon that covers him
Sits in a frosty sky

And watches pillaging and death
Oh, can he be the same --
My sailor lad who loved me
And now is but a name ...

Grant me one boon, O crystal moon,
In the land of By-and-By,
Will you carry a message (of stars) for me
To a lad in far Shanghai?





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