The Jolly Company
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he stars, a jolly company,I envied, straying late and lonely;And cried upon their revelry:"O white companionship! You onlyIn love, in faith unbroken dwell,Friends radiant and inseparable!" Light-heart and glad they seemed to meAnd merry comrades (EVEN SOGOD OUT OF HEAVEN MAY LAUGH TO SEETHE HAPPY CROWDS; AND NEVER KNOWTHAT IN HIS LONE OBSCURE DISTRESSEACH WALKETH IN A WILDERNESS). But I, remembering, pitied wellAnd loved them, who, with lonely light,In empty infinite spaces dwell,Disconsolate. For, all the night,I heard the thin gnat-voices cry,Star to faint star, across the sky.
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