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Motley and Other Poems

by Walter de la Mare

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Eyes

O strange devices that alone divide
The seër from the seen—
The very highway of earth’s pomp and pride
That lies between
The traveller and the cheating, sweet delight
Of where he longs to be,
But which, bound hand and foot, he, close on night,
Can only see.

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