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Already strange. The poem is beautiful and sad. What's interesting is the rhyming scheme - it strikes me as somewhat childish - yet the imagery conjured up and the subject matter is equal parts heart-breaking and mind-bending. Note: I don't know how much our commentator can be trusted here; how much of the poem is Shade's?

"Outstare the stars. . . above your head they close like giant wings, and you are dead."