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Alone — With One Fair Star · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: Alone with one fair star, alone with one fair star
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Speaker 1: for company, the loveliest star among the hosts of night.
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Speaker 1: While the gray tide ebbs with the ebbing light. I
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Speaker 1: pace along the darkening wintry sea, now round the yule
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Speaker 1: log and the glittering tree, twinkling with festive tapers, eyes
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Speaker 1: as bright sparkle with Christmas joys and young delight as
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Speaker 1: each one gathers with his family. But I a waif
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Speaker 1: on earth, where e'er I roam, uprooted with life's bleeding
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Speaker 1: hopes and fears from that one heart that was my
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Speaker 1: heart's soul. Home. Feel the old pang pierced through the
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Speaker 1: severing years, and as I think upon the years to come,
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Speaker 1: that fair star trembles through my falling tears,