“It mocks me as it flies, I know:
All too soon the gleam will go;
Yet I love it and shall love
My dream that brooks no narrower bars
Than bind the darkening heavens above,
My Jack o'Lanthorn of the stars:
Then, I'll follow it no more,
I'll light the lamp: I'll close the door.”

— Alfred Noyes

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The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), Forest of Wild Thyme

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English poet 1880–1958

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