Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Lyric: Oscar Wilde

Beautiful star with the crimson lips,
And flagrant daffodil hair...


Come back, come back, in the shaking ships
O'er the much-overrated sea,
To the hearts that are sick for thee,
With a woe worse than mal de mer—
Beautiful star with the crimson lips,
And the flagrant daffodil hair...


O ship that shakes on the desolate sea,
Neath the flag of the wan White Star,
Bring us dreams from a brighter land,
Where irony dances with art.

Thou bringest a brighter star with thee,
From the land of the Philistine,
Where Niagara's reckoned fine,
And Tupper is popular—
But we long for the crimson lips,
And the flagrant daffodil hair...


O ship that shakes on the desolate sea,
Neath the flag of the wan White Star,
Carry her back on a tide of verse,
From Wilde's world, both near and far.


Beautiful star...
Crimson lips...
Come back...