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Motley and Other Poems

by Walter de la Mare

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The Unchanging

After the songless rose of evening,
        Night quiet, dark, still,
In nodding cavalcade advancing
        Starred the deep hill:
You, in the valley standing,
        In your quiet wonder took
All that glamour, peace, and mystery
        In one grave look.
Beauty hid your naked body,
        Time dreamed in your bright hair,
In your eyes the constellations
        Burned far and fair.

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