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 THE LISTENERS AND OTHER POEMS 

BY WALTER DE LA MARE

NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

The author's thanks for permission to reprint certain of the poems included in this collection are due to the Editors of the Saturday Review, the Thrush, the Pall Mall Magazine, the Odd Volume, the Lady's Realm, the English Review, the Westminster Gazette, the Commonwealth, and the Nation.

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CONTENTS

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THE THREE CHERRY TREES

There were three cherry trees once,

Grew in a garden all shady;

And there for delight of so gladsome a sight,

Walked a most beautiful lady,

Dreamed a most beautiful lady.

Birds in those branches did sing,

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