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He sits beneath his jasmined porch, His stick between his knees, His eyes fixed vacant On his moss-grown trees.

From The Listeners and Other Poems by De la Mare, Walter

He sits beneath his jasmined porch,   His stick between his knees, His eyes fixed vacant   On his moss-grown trees.

From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. by De la Mare, Walter