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Poet, endlessly quiet and mischievous (7)

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larkish

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'mischievous' is the definition.
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'poet endlessly quiet' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'quiet' could be 'sh' (both can be said to tell someone to be quiet) and 'sh' is found in the answer.
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