“Space is a wind that does not blow
On Betelgeuse and time – oh time – is a bird,
Whose wings have never stirred
The golden avenues of leaves
On Betelgeuse.”

"Betelgeuse", from The Unknown Goddess (London: Methuen, [1925] 1927) p. 34.

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English poet 1885–1940

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