The Blue Flower (1902)
by Henry van Dyke
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The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion for something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow.

--SHELLEY.


To the dear memory of Bernard van Dyke, 1887-1897 and the love that lives beyond the years.

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