O stars,
isn't it from you that the lover's desire for the face
of his beloved arises? Doesn't his secret insight
into her pure features come from the pure constellations?
From "The Third Elegy" by Rainer Maria Rilke (via The Amber Spyglass by Philip J. Pullman)
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