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The Ultimate National Monument Before it had the name it had such forms Of life as still it has, and faultless stars Recurring true between the lightning storms. We call them signs, add meanings. Glaring Mars And milder wanderers among them drift, At times the houses of Astrology, Our pledge of futures, Zoroaster’s gift. Now, magnitudes set arbitrarily And creatures of a night no more than night, They shine within their limits. All the same My own sign, Capricorn, leaps doubly bright Above the valley of the dreaded name. 63 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...

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