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ADAGIO: A DUET, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Should you / lay ear to these lines
Last Line: For the labour of an ear?
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


Should you
lay ear to these lines,
you will not catch
a distant drum of hoofs,
cavalcade of Arabians,
passionate horde bearing down,
destroying your citadel --
but maybe you'll hear --
should you just
listen at the right place,
hold it tenaciously,
give your full blood to the effort --
maybe you'll note the start
of a single step,
always persistently faint,
wavering in its movement
between coming and going,
never quite arriving,
never quite passing --
and tell me which it is,
you or I
that you greet,
searching a mutual being --
and whether two aren't closer
for the labour of an ear?





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