"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."
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"Betelgeuse", from The Unknown Goddess (London: Methuen, [1925] 1927) p. 34.
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Humbert Wolfe
Humbert Wolfe CB CBE (5 January 1885 – 5 January 1940) was an Italian-born English poet, biographer, literary critic, translator and civil servant. Hugely popular during his own lifetime, his poems have since fallen into neglect.
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