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Rivers and winds among the twisted hills, / Hears, and his hearing slowly fills, / And hearkens, and his face is lit, / Life facing, Death pursuing it.
As with heaped bees at hiving time / The boughs are clotted, as (ere prime)
Heaven swarms with stars, or the city street / Pullulates with passing feet; / So swarmed my senses once, that now / Repose behind my tranquil brow, / Unsealed, asleep, quiescent, clear; / Now only the vast shapes I hear --
Hear -- and my hearing slowly fills --
Rivers and winds among the twisting hills, / And hearken -- and my face is lit --
Life facing, Death pursuing it.