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Poem by Eleanor Farjeon


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The night will never stay,
The night will still go by,
Though with a million stars
You pin it to the sky;
Though you bind it with the blowing
    wind
And buckle it with the moon,
The night will slip away
Like sorrow or a tune.



Eleanor Farjeon


Eleanor Farjeon's other poems:
  1. The Moral
  2. Spring-Dawn
  3. Wild Hyacinth
  4. Sonnets. 1. Man Cannot Be a Sophist to His Heart
  5. Sonnets. 15. Farewell, you children that I might have borne


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