…till love is all in the mind –
O my America!
my new – found land –
or all in the pen
in the writer’s hand –
behold, thou art fair-
not there, except in a poem,
known by heart like a prayer,
both near and far,
near and far –
the desire of the moth
for the star.
pg. 59 the love poem, Picador
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