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Who Is It That Answers?

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The clouds no more are flocking     After the flushing sun;     Bees end their long droning,     The bat's hunt is begun;     And the tired wind that went flittering     Up and down the hill     Lies like a shadow still,     Like a shadow still.     Who is it that's calling     Out of the deepening dark,     Calling, calling, calling?--     No!--yet hark!     The sleepy wind wakes, carrying     Up and down the hill     A voice how small and still,     How sweet and still!     Who is it that answers     Out of a quiet cloud--     "Stay, oh stay! I come, I come!"     Cried at last aloud?     My voice, my heart went answering     Up and down the hill--     Mine so strange and still,     Mine grave and still.

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