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In The Cool Of The Evening

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I thought I heard Him calling. Did you hear     A sound, a little sound? My curious ear     Is dinned with flying noises, and the tree     Goes, whisper, whisper, whisper silently     Till all its whispers spread into the sound     Of a dull roar. Lie closer to the ground,     The shade is deep and He may pass us by.     We are so very small, and His great eye,     Customed to starry majesties, may gaze     Too wide to spy us hiding in the maze;     Ah, misery! the sun has not yet gone     And we are naked: He will look upon     Our crouching shame, may make us stand upright     Burning in terror, O that it were night!     He may not come ... what? listen, listen, now,     He is here! lie closer ... 'Adam, where art thou?'

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"I thought I heard Him calling. Did you hear..."

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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