The Watcher

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Put forth to watch, unschooled, alone,
  'Twixt hostile earth and sky;
  The mottled lizard 'neath the stone
 Is wiser here than I.

 What stir across the haze of heat?
  What omen down the wind?
  The buck that break before my feet-
  They know, but I am blind!

© Rudyard Kipling