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AMBERGRIS 
 
 
 
 
OTHER LOVE SONGS 
 
Eileen 
 
Under the stars the die was cast to win. 
The moonrays stained with pale embroidered bars 
The iridescent shimmer of your skin, 
Under the stars. 
 
Great angels drove their pearl-interwoven cars 
Through the night’s racecourse :  silence stood within 
The folded cups of passion’s nenuphars. 
 
You were my own ;  sorrowless, without sin, 
That night this night.  Sinks the red eye of Mars ; 
The hand of Hermes guides us as we spin 
Under the stars.