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<center>Two [[Passion|lovers]] to a midnight meadow came</center>
<center>Two [[Passion|lovers]] to a midnight meadow came</center>
<center>High in the hills, to lie there hand and hand</center>
<center>High in the hills, to lie there hand and hand</center>
<center>Like effigies and look up at the stars,</center>
<center>Like effigies and look up at the [[stars]],</center>
<center>The never-setting ones set in the North</center>
<center>The never-setting ones set in the North</center>
<center>To [[circle]] the Pole in idiot [[majesty]],</center>
<center>To [[circle]] the Pole in idiot [[majesty]],</center>
<center>And what was given them to wonder.</center>
<center>And what was given them to [[wonder]].</center>
<center>Being amateurs, they knew some of the [[names]]</center>
<center>Being amateurs, they knew some of the [[names]]</center>
<center>By rote, and could attach the names to stars</center>
<center>By rote, and could attach the [[names]] to stars</center>
<center>And draw the lines [[invisible]] between</center>
<center>And draw the lines [[invisible]] between</center>
<center>That [[humbled]] all the [[heaven]]ly [[things]] to farm</center>
<center>That [[humbled]] all the [[heaven]]ly [[things]] to farm</center>
<center>Could wonder at the [[shadow]] of the world</center>
<center>Could [[wonder]] at the [[shadow]] of the world</center>
<center>That brought those lights to [[light]], could wonder too</center>
<center>That brought those lights to [[light]], could wonder too</center>
<center>At the ancestral eyes and the [[dark]] [[mind]]</center>
<center>At the [[ancestral]] eyes and the [[dark]] [[mind]]</center>
<center>Behind them that had reached the length of light</center>
<center>Behind them that had reached the length of light</center>
<center>To name the stars and draw the [[animal]]s</center>
<center>To name the [[stars]] and draw the [[animal]]s</center>
<center>And other stuff that dangled in the height,</center>
<center>And other stuff that dangled in the height,</center>
<center>Or was it the [[fathom|deep]]? Did they look in</center>
<center>Or was it the [[fathom|deep]]? Did they look in</center>
<center>Or out, the lovers? till they grew bored</center>
<center>Or out, the lovers? till they grew bored</center>
<center>As even lovers will, and got up to go,</center>
<center>As even [[love]]rs will, and got up to go,</center>
<center>But drunken now, with staggering and dizziness,</center>
<center>But drunken now, with staggering and dizziness,</center>
<center>Because the [[Gospel|spell]] of [[earth]] had moved them so,</center>
<center>Because the [[Gospel|spell]] of [[earth]] had moved them so,</center>
<center>Hallucinating that the heavens [[Motion|moved]].</center>
<center>Hallucinating that the [[heavens]] [[Motion|moved]].</center>
