<h3><SPAN name="Sadness_of_the_Moon-Goddess" id="Sadness_of_the_Moon-Goddess"></SPAN>Sadness of the Moon-Goddess</h3>
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To-night the Moon dreams with increased weariness,<br/>
Like a beauty stretched forth on a downy heap<br/>
Of rugs, while her languorous fingers caress<br/>
The contour of her breasts, before falling to sleep.<br/>
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On the satin back of the avalanche soft,<br/>
She falls into lingering swoons, as she dies,<br/>
While she lifteth her eyes to white visions aloft,<br/>
Which like efflorescence float up to the skies.<br/>
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When at times, in her languor, down on to this sphere,<br/>
She slyly lets trickle a furtive tear,<br/>
A poet, desiring slumber to shun,<br/>
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Takes up this pale tear in the palm of his hand<br/>
(The colours of which like an opal blend),<br/>
And buries it far from the eyes of the sun.<br/></p>
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