the listeners (quotes)

Question 1

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Answer 1

is there anybody there? said the traveler
Knocking on the moonlit door
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forests ferny floor

Question 2

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Answer 2

but only a host of phantom listeners
that dwelt in the lone house then
stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
to that voice from the world of men

Question 3

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Answer 3

tell them i came and no one answered
that i kept my word he said

Question 3

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Answer 3

and he felt in his heart their strangeness
their stillness answering his cry

Question 4

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Answer 4

the shadowiness of the still house

Question 5

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Answer 5

Ay they heard his foot upon the stirrup
and the sound of iron on stone
and how the silence surged softly backward
when the plunging hoofs were gone