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The Listeners and Other Poems

by Walter de la Mare

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Beware!

An ominous bird sang from its branch,
 ‘Beware, O Wanderer!
Night ’mid her flowers of glamourie spilled
 Draws swiftly near:

‘Night with her darkened caravans,
 Piled deep with silver and myrrh,
Draws from the portals of the East,
 O Wanderer near!

‘Night who walks plumèd through the fields
 Of stars that strangely stir—
Smitten to fire by the sandals of him
 Who walks with her.’

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