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THE PHASES OF THE MOON

Too lonely for the traffic of the world:
Body and soul cast out and cast away
Beyond the visible world.


Aherne

All dreams of the soul
End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.


Robartes

Have you not always known it?


Aherne

The song will have it
That those that we have loved got their long fingers
From death, and wounds, or on Sinai's top,
Or from some bloody whip in their own hands.
They ran from cradle to cradle till at last