Ah, not to be cut off

Pages [2]-[3] blank; colophon on page [4] Poetry. Text on page [1] within wide frame of night sky with stars; gold stars in margin. Title from first line; publisher's catalog gives title as: The law of the stars. Type-signed at end of text: Rainer Maria Rilke. "Translation by Stephen Mitchell." From: The Enlightened heart : an anthology of sacred poetry / edited by Stephen Mitchell.