listening (n.)
listening (adj.)
Calm on the listening ear of night
Come Heaven's melodious strains,
Where wild Judea stretches far
Her silver-mantled plains.
Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the listening earth
Repeats the story of her birth;
While all the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll,
And spread the truth from pole to pole.
In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.
He ceas'd; but left so pleasing on their ear
His voice, that list'ning still they seem'd to hear.
