LXVI

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The Palace of Art

A star that with the choral starry dance

Joined not, but stood, and standing saw

The hollow orb of moving Circumstance

Rolled round by one fixed law.

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