One True Tree: Cantos XVII-XX

Narrative Verse

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One True Tree: Cantos XVII-XX

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

XVII

“By these royal ears rich tidings I’ve heard,
Not by fleet runner or messenger furred,
But through shrewd watchers who study the sky,
There calculating the motions on high
Of star and planet, their twinkle and turn,
Recording their rate of luminous burn,
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