The rainy Pleiads wester

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

The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone, The stroke of midnight ceases And I lie down alone.

The rainy Pleiads wester, And seek beyond the sea The head that I shall dream of That will not dream of me.

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