Freckled with homeward crows. Surprised he stood

To feel that wideness quenching his hot mood,

Then shouted, “Trembling darkness, trembling green,

What do you mean, wild wood, what do you mean?”

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He shouted. But the solitude received

His noise into her noiselessness, his fire

Into her calm. Perhaps he half believed

Some answer yet would come to his desire.

The hushed air quivered softly like a wire