Page:Collected poems vol 1 de la mare.djvu/170

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THE LISTENERS: 1914

Unmoved it broods, this all-encompassing hush
Of one who stooping near,
No smallest stir will make
Our fear to wake;
But yet intent
Upon some mystery bent
Harkens the lightest word we say, or hear.

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