“Say something to us that we can learn
By heart and when alone repeat.
Say something! And it says "I burn."”

— Robert Frost

" Take Something Like a Star http://somethingbeautiful.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/robert_frost_to.html" (1949) <br class="br">General sources <br class="br">Context: O Star (the fairest one in sight)<br>We grant your loftiness the right<br>To some obscurity of cloud —<br>It will not do to say of night,<br>Since dark is what brings out your light.<br>Some mystery becomes the proud.<br>But to be wholly taciturn<br>In your reserve is not allowed.<br>Say something to us that we can learn<br>By heart and when alone repeat.<br>Say something! And it says "I burn."

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