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Ye who have the stable world

In the keeping of your hands.

Flocks and men, the lasting hills,

And the ever-wheeling stars;

Ye who freight with wondrous things 5

The wide-wandering heart of man

And the galleon of the moon,

On those silent seas of foam;

Oh, if ever ye shall grant

Time and place and room enough 10

To this fond and fragile heart

Stifled with the throb of love,

On that day one grave-eyed Fate,

Pausing in her toil, shall say,

"Lo, one mortal has achieved 15

Immortality of love!"