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The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect

The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

Leonard Cohen

Moon, Two, Perfect

Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.226, McClelland & Stewart

So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed, It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star, I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.

Leonard Cohen

Stars, Moon, Infidelity

Song: Death Of A Ladies' Man, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977