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I cannot refrain from posting a second comment.   This is one of the most poignant love poems I have ever read.  The unexplained back story adds to the poem's effect; and the brevity of its lines conceals a longevity of resonance as an aftermath or after-effect.  Back in the late spring of 1979, as part of my audit of an undergraduate astronomy class, I was invited to look at the rings of Saturn through the observatory at our University operated.  While I remember the intensity of my few moments at the eyepiece, and the sense of the nearness of Saturn that the telescope created, that image has remained very significant in my memory.  I predict this poem will have the same effect on many readers.  You have mastered the skill of compression and, I think, would be much applauded by J. V. Cunningham himself.  I really, really love this poem; I shall be re-visiting it more than once.