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AD ASTRA: 53 by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE

First Line: THOU STAR! THAT SHONE UPON ME FROM A HEIGHT
Last Line: WHICH ELSE HAD FOUNDER'D IN THE MIDNIGHT BARE!
Subject(s): DEATH; DESPAIR; LOVE - LOSS OF; SOLITUDE; DEAD, THE; LONELINESS;
'Thou Star! that shone upon me from a height
As wide and boundless as the spacious Heaven,
Filling my lonely soul with thy pure light
And that sweet peace that doth all passion leaven.
Bright beacon to my bark in tempest driven
Too nigh the perilous quicksands of Despair,
Which else had founder'd in the midnight bare!



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