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None can tell in metre
 Fit for ears on earth
What sweet star grew sweeter
  At your birth.

Wisdom doubts what may be:
 Hope, with smile sublime,
Trusts: but neither, baby,
  Knows the rhyme.

Wisdom lies down lonely:
 Hope keeps watch from far;
None but one seer only
  Sees the star.

Love alone, with yearning
 Heart for astrolabe,
Takes the star’s height, burning
  O’er the babe.

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