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THE GYPSY STAR
There were seven shining stars that swung above my cradle
(She never was kind to me, Diana our Lady the Moon!)
And one was rosy-pale, and one was scarlet-golden,
And one was a little shadowed star that only could vanish soon!

Oh, Mars was scarlet-wild and Venus was veiled in shadow
(She called to the clouds to come, Diana our Lady of Snow!)
But all of the stars that rose and helped me where I must wander
They never could hold the Gypsy Star to the roads where my feet must go!

Oh, one was a star of crowns and one was a star of dreaming
And one was a star of mockery and one was a help from pain,
And ever the Sun was kind and shone for my idle singing,
But ah, my wandering Gypsy Star I never shall find again!

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