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 So swerved

By love's vast leverage from its ancient grooves

And changeless cycles of eternal wars,

The planet moves

To grander revolutions among softer stars

And skies unblasted by the beams of Mars,

To placid periods under milder rays,

Pacific seasons, august nights and days.

Munich, July 1921.

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