KindredAuthor(s): George SterlingSource: Poetry, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Dec., 1912), p. 77Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20569661 .

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KINDRED

Musing, between the sunset and the dark, As Twilight in unhesitating hands Bore from the faint horizon's underlands,

Silvern and chill, the moon's phantasmal ark, I heard the sea, and far away could mark Where that unalterable waste expands In sevenfold sapphire from the mournful sands,

And saw beyond the deep a vibrant spark.

There sank the sun Arcturus, and I thought: Star, by an ocean on a world of thine, May not a being, born like me to die,

Confront a little the eternal Naught And watch our isolated sun decline

Sad for his evanescence, even as I? George Sterling

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