The Listeners

...Marge Dawson emailed me this pic, and I think the stillness of it suits the de la Mare poem that is constantly on the brink of my sub-conscious.

THE LISTENERS by: Walter de la Mare (b. 1873)
"Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champ'd the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor...
...etc....

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-listeners/