Stars

Portrait of A.E. Housman
A.E. Housman 1859–1936

Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea, And still the sea is salt.

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