<h3> <SPAN name="distances"></SPAN> DISTANCES </h3>
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Above the moist earth, tremulous and bright,<br/>
The stars creep forth—stars that I cannot see;<br/>
And to my cell steals, oh, so tenderly<br/>
The dewy fragrance of a summer night!<br/>
All wan and wistful, somewhere out of sight,<br/>
Stalking o'er landscapes wide and dark and free,<br/>
My friend, the moon, looks everywhere for me,<br/>
Splashing the paths I loved with silver light.<br/></p>
<p class="poem">
Oh loveliness! why do you torture so<br/>
With such keen beauty till the day appears?<br/>
Why touch to life things buried long ago,<br/>
Whose aching cries trouble the heart to tears;<br/>
Ghostly—like wind tossed sea gulls calling low<br/>
Out of the poignant vistas of the years?<br/></p>
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