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The Listeners and Other Poems

by Walter de la Mare

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Exile

Had the gods loved me I had lain
 Where darnel is, and thorn,
And the wild night-bird’s nightlong strain
 Trembles in boughs forlorn.

Nay, but they loved me not; and I
 Must needs a stranger be,
Whose every exiled day gone by
 Aches with their memory.

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