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2. There’s a Hole in My Galaxy Was as eighty,
The Light of Stars That a door was as wooden

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow As in England—
The night is come, but not too soon; So he stood in his shoes

And sinking silently, And he wondered,
All silently, the little moon He wondered,

Drops down behind the sky. He stood in his shoes,
There is no light in earth or heaven And he wondered.
But the cold light of stars; —John Keats

And the first watch of night is given
To the red planet Mars. 5. A Lesson for Nakul
Old Friends by Edgar Guest
Is it the tender star of love? The new friends may be fond of you for what you
The star of love and dreams? are today;
O no! from that blue tent above, They’ve only known you rich, perhaps, an’ only

A hero’s armor gleams. seen you gay;
You can’t tell what’s attracted them; your station
4. The Last Paper may appeal;

The Naughty Boy Perhaps they smile on you because you’re doin’
There was a naughty boy, something real;

And a naughty boy was he. But old friends who have seen you fail, an’ also
He ran away to Scotland, seen you win,
The people there to see — Who’ve loved you either up or down, stuck to
you, thick or thin,
Then he found Who knew you as a budding youth, an’ watched
That the ground you start to climb,

Was as hard, Through weal an’ woe, still friends of yours an’
That a yard constant all the time,
Was as long, When trouble comes an’ things go wrong, I don’t

That a song care what you say,
Was as merry, They are the friends you'll turn to, for you want
the old friends’ way.
That a cherry
Was as red, 7. The Boy from the Std. III
That lead Tenzin Gyatso, describes himself as a simple

Was as weighty, yet humble Buddhist monk. He is the admired
That fourscore spiritual leader of Tibet who was born on 6 July
1935, to a modest farming family, in a small

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