This one’s from The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 4th Edition, ed. by Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy (1970). The end word in many of the lines of this poem becomes a harbinger for the first word in the next line where some of its letters and sounds are echoed. More here on MacNeice:
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from The Sunlight on the Garden / by Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
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