“I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.”

—  W. H. Auden

As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)

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Anglo-American poet 1907–1973

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