My Star

1855

All that I knowOf a certain star,Is, it can throw(Like the angled spar)Now a dart of red,Now a dart of blue,Till my friends have saidThey would fain see, too,My star that dartles the red and the blue!Then it stops like a bird,—like a flower, hangs furled;They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.What matter to me if their star is a world?Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.

From Men and Women by Robert Browning, via the English Wikisource transcription.

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