"My beloved knows that I watch thee, O moon, and when thy beams caress her, our separation is less cruel."

- Chiang Che-kin, from "Chinese Love Poems," Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, 1942

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As low as the Moon’s passage will get was yesterday (behind the clouds); it’s now carving a higher path each day for the next two weeks as it wanes, and then emerges anew. #WatchingTheMoon