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OR every tiny town or place

God made the stars especially;

Babies look up with owlish face

And see them tangled in a tree:

You saw a moon from Sussex Downs,

A Sussex moon, untravelled still,

I saw a moon that was the town's,

The largest lamp on Campden Hill.

Yea, Heaven is everywhere at home

The big blue cap that always fits,

And so it is (be calm; they come

To goal at last, my wandering wits),

So is it with the heroic thing;

This shall not end for the world's end

And though the sullen engines swing,

Be you not much afraid, my friend.

This did not end by Nelson's urn

Where an immortal England sits—

Nor where your tall young men in turn

Drank death like wine at Austerlitz.