A STAR COMES SINGING
I.
The Earth Turns South
The earth turns south again.
Nipped by the sunless spaces, chilled and timorous,
She scuttles back toward the summer glow.
Nipped by the sunless spaces, chilled and timorous,
She scuttles back toward the summer glow.
My life turns south again.
Rounding the venturesome sweep of thirty years,
Back on my orbit I go,
My eyes absorbing what lies beyond
In the untraveled cold spaces.
Once more the tender glow of summer for me,
And I shall turn north for the last time.
Rounding the venturesome sweep of thirty years,
Back on my orbit I go,
My eyes absorbing what lies beyond
In the untraveled cold spaces.
Once more the tender glow of summer for me,
And I shall turn north for the last time.
The circuit of the sun
Is a day to the sun, a year to me.
Yet there shall be sun years,
And an end of sun years.
Is a day to the sun, a year to me.
Yet there shall be sun years,
And an end of sun years.
II.
The Coming
In a desolate space between two distant stars
There is a stir:
There is a stir:
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