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Walter de la Mare on Silence

1873–1956 England

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We wake and whisper awhile,
But, the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of amaranth lie.

"Is anybody there?" said the Traveler,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor.

The Listeners (1912)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Walter de la Mare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.