The Silken Tassel/Lines to the Crescent Moon

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Lines

Written on a Blank Leaf in Sir Rabindranath Tagore’s "The Crescent Moon"

Where hast thou been, Oh Crescent Moon!
My baby Crescent Moon!
I waited for thee late and soon,
My baby Crescent Moon!
While evening came and shadows fell
Across the land and main,
I look’d for thee in frowning skies,
And look’d for thee in vain.

Well have I caught thee now within
My silver net of stars;
Oh Crescent Moon! thy light serene
My prison’d joy unbars;
Though thou wert far and long unseen
In deeper darkening skies,
I heard thee beating in my heart,
I saw thee in my eyes!

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To see thy smiles of blossoming light,
My baby Crescent Moon!
I long for ever in my night,
My baby Crescent Moon!
Fill up thy golden cup of love,
And pour thy light divine!
I see a hundred heavens conceal’d
Within that heart of thine!

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