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In Nineveh / And beyond Nineveh / In the dusk / They were afraid.
In Thebes of Egypt / In the dusk / They chanted of them to the dead.
In my Lesbos and Achaia / Where the God dwelt / We knew them.
Now men say "They are not": / But in the dusk / Ere the white sun comes -- / A gay child that bears a white candle -- / I am afraid of their rustling, / Of their terrible silence, / The menace of their secrecy.