Mihai Eminescu

So far it is athwart the blue
To where yon star appears,
That for its light to reach our view
Has needed thousand years.

Maybe that ages gone it shed
Its glow, then languished in the skies,
Yet only now its rays have sped
Their journey to our eyes.

by Mihai Eminescu (January 15, 1850 - June 15,1889), To The Star

Ref.: http://www.gabrielditu.com/eminescu/index.asp
- http://mvlada.blogspot.com/2010/01/gabriel-ditu-romanul-din-australia.html

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