Bayleigh Murray

“Looking up at the stars, I know quite well

That, for all they care, I can go to hell,

But on Earth indifference is the least

We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn

With a passion for us we could not return?

If equal affection cannot be,

Let the more loving one be me.

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W.H. Auden