The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul whe…

Pablo Neruda
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The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you. ✨ Pablo Neruda (1990). Selected Poems, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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