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The Song Of Shadows

    By Walter De La Mare



    Sweep thy faint Strings, Musician,
        With thy long lean hand;
    Downward the starry tapers burn,
        Sinks soft the waning sand;
    The old hound whimpers couched in sleep,
        The embers smoulder low;
    Across the walls the shadows
        Come, and go.

    Sweep softly thy strings, Musician,
        The minutes mount to hours;
    Frost on the windless casement weaves
        A labyrinth of flowers;
    Ghosts linger in the darkening air,
        Hearken at the open door;
    Music hath called them, dreaming,
        Home once more.



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