Related Clues:

• Close, in poetry
• Words after bend or lend
• Key contraction
• 'Comin' ___ the Rye'
• Close by, once
• Before, in ballads
• Lend --- (pay close attention)
• ...
• What a listener lends
• Proximate to, to poets
• Before of yore
• Above, to Francis Scott Key
• ''--- the land of the free ...''
• '___ the mother's milk had dried': Kipling
• Anthem word