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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508464" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Moon-Lover</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Moon is like a ping-pong ball;<br>I lean against the orchard wall,<br>And see it soar into the void,<br>A silky sphere of celluloid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then fairy fire enkindles it,<br>Like gossamer by taper lit,<br>Until it glows above the trees<br>As mellow as a Cheddar cheese.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And up and up I watch it press<br>Into appalling loneliness;<br>Like realms of ice without a stain,<br>A corpse Moon come to life again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ruthless it drowns a sturdy star<br>That seeks its regal way to bar;<br>Seeming with conscious power to grow,<br>And sweeter, purer, gladder glow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dreaming serenely up the sky<br>Until exultantly on high,<br>It shimmers with superb delight,<br>The silver navel of the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have a compact to commune<br>A monthly midnight with the Moon;<br>Into its face I stare and stare,<br>And find sweet understanding there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As quiet as a toad I sit<br>And tell my tale of days to it;<br>The tessellated yarn I've spun<br>In thirty spells of star and sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the Moon listens pensively,<br>As placid as a lamb to me;<br>Until I think there's just us two<br>In silver world of mist and dew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In all of spangled space, but I<br>To stare moon-struck into the sky;<br>Of billion beings I alone<br>To praise the Moon as still as stone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And seal a bond between us two,<br>Closer than mortal ever knew;<br>For as mute masses I intone<br>The Moon is mine and mine alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To know the Moon as few men may,<br>One must be just a little fey;<br>And for our friendship's sake I'm glad<br>That I am just a trifle mad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And one with all the wild, wise things,<br>The furtive folk of fur and wings,<br>That hold the Moon within their eyes,<br>And make it nightly sacrifice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O I will watch the maiden Moon<br>Dance on the sea with silver shoon;<br>But with the Queen Moon I will keep<br>My tryst when all the world's asleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I have kept by land and sea<br>That tryst for half a century;<br>Entranced in sibylline suspense<br>Beyond a world of common-sense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Until one night the Moon alone<br>Will look upon a graven stone. . . .<br>I wonder will it miss me then,<br>Its lover more than other men?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or will my wistful ghost be there,<br>Down ages dim to stare and stare,<br>On silver nights without a stir--<br>The Moon's Eternal Worshipper?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</a><div class=q>
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The Moon is like a ping-pong ball;
I lean against the orchard wall,
And see it soar into the void,
A silky sphere of celluloid.

Then fairy fire enkindles it,
Like gossamer by taper lit,
Until it glows above the trees
As mellow as a Cheddar che..."></div>
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