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Poems written during estrangement: By William Watson
Watson, William (1858-1935)
  
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XV
A LAODICEAN

Timorous, hesitant voice, how utterly vile
I hold you!
Voice without wrath, without ruth—
empty of hate as of love!
Different notes from these, O watchman,
blow to the midnight!
Loud, in a deep-lulled land, trumpeter,
sound an alarm!
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