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IN EXILE
II
The steady stars of Heaven
Look down into the brook;
Up from the brook to Heaven
The stars as steady look.
Amid the vale, the waters
Undeviating flow.
Past root and rock and forest
They go as they should go.
What keeps the brook so certain,
What rhymes the stars so true,
Hath sure some perfect reason
For parting me and you.
Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London.
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