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TWAS night and where a watery sound	A
Came moaning up the Flat	B
Six rude and bearded stockmen round	A
Their blazing hut fire sat	B
And laughed as on some starting hound	A
The cracking fuel spat	B
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And merrier still the log fire cracks	C
As night the darker falls	D
While not a noisy tongue there lacks	C
To tell of drunken brawls	D
But most of battle with the Blacks	C
Some bloody tale appals	C
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Amongst them then Ned Connor spoke	E
And up his form he drew	F
What is there in an open stroke	E
To boast of You but slew	F
Those who d have done each hell black one	G
The same or worse to you	F
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But lost among the hills one day	H
Which then was well nigh shut	I
I met a Black upon my way	H
And thus the matter put	J
Unto him See this knife s for thee	K
Come guide me to my hut	I
	-
His savage eyes grew huge with joy	L
As on the prize they bent	M
And leading even like a boy	L
He capered as he went	M
But think you men to give the toy	L
Ned Connor ever meant	M
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An hour had brought us many a mile	N
And then as closed the day	H
The savage pointed with a smile	N
To where my Station lay	H
There give to me the knife said he	K
And let me go my way	H
	-
I never meant that he should touch	O
The thing as I have said	P
And when he stretched his hand to clutch	O
A thought came in my head	P
I raised my gun as though in fun	G
I fired and he was dead	P
	-
The ruffian laughed in his pitiless mood	Q
When ended thus his tale	R
But all the rest though men of blood	S
With horror seemed to quail	R
And saw though he stood boastfully	R
That Connor too was pale	R
	-
For through the moaning of the trees	C
He seemed to hear the sound	A
Of his own laughter in the breeze	C
Keep roaming out till drowned	A
In wild and bitter mockeries	C
Up answering from the ground	A
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Now what to hear had made them fear	T
Had also made them dry	U
But strange the water pail that late	V
Brimm d in the corner nigh	U
Was empty In amazement great	V
There s not a drop they cry	U
	-
Their thirst grew bitter and they said	P
Come this will never do	F
It is your turn for water Ned	P
Then why not go He drew	F
Full hard his breath and from his head	P
There dripped a sudden dew	F
	-
But shaming to be taxed with fear	T
He seized the pail and said	P
What care I Though the night be drear	T
Who ever saw the dead	P
And if I fail to fill this pail	R
The devil shall instead	P
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He sallied forth A sudden blast	W
Went sobbing by the door	T
Through which they heard his footsteps fast	W
Recede and when no more	T
They heard them round the fire aghast	W
They gathered as before	T
	-
I would not go alone to night	X
The way that he is gone	Y
Said one for all the gold my sight	X
Hath ever fallen upon	Z
To slay that creature was not right	X
I d say t were he my son	G
	-
And now impatient all and wild	A2
They wondered at his stay	H
Till one outspake A weanling child	A2
Could not make more delay	H
If longer slack in coming back	B2
He ll bring with him the day	H
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But while they thus were wondering hark	C2
They hear a frantic shriek	D2
Then nearing footsteps through the dark	C2
Come waywardly and weak	D2
And as the dogs did howl and bark	C2
They stared but feared to speak	D2
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Against the door that to had swung	E2
One rushed then and twas split	F2
Twas Connor who amid them sprung	E2
And fell into a fit	F2
And long that night in ghastly plight	X
He struggled there in it	F2
	-
And when his sense returned again	G2
The sun was rising bright	X
But shuddering as in mental pain	H2
He turned him from the light	X
And pointing said To bed to bed	P
For Death is in my sight	X
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They bore him to his bed straightway	H
Those horror stricken men	G2
And questioned him as there he lay	H
Of what had met his ken	G2
Within himself he seemed to pray	H
And thus bespake them then	G2
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I went you heard with impious boast	I2
For water to the brook	J2
But when the threshold I had crost	I2
All strength my heart forsook	J2
Each forward step seemed fate but most	I2
I feared behind to look	J2
	-
Long murky clouds were hurrying fast	I2
Across the starless sky	U
Strange sounds came drowning up the blast	I2
That piped by fits so high	U
A winding gleam and lo the stream	K2
Went wildly moaning by	U
	-
I knew not why but it struck mine eye	U
With a dull damp sense of awe	H
And bankward densely crawling by	U
Crude Shapes methought I saw	C
But I must not back I said alack	U
But down at once and draw	C
	-
Now standing at the water s edge	L2
Mine eyes thereon I threw	T
And lo distinctly through the sedge	L2
What is it there I view	T
Not mine own shadow from the ledge	L2
But him the Black I slew	T
	-
Twas no delusion There he stood	I2
Within the gleaming brook	U
The same as when I shed his blood	I2
His stature and his look	U
Even to the dread accusing shade	I2
His dying aspect took	U
	-
With backward bound I started round	I2
And up the bank did flee	R
But ah as swiftly in my track	U
Bare footfalls seemed to be	R
Step step for mine close at my back	U
I heard but nought could see	R
	-
It was a horrible thing to hear	T
Behind me still the sound	I2
I could not bear to have it there	T
And desperate faced me round	I2
When through the dark a sudden spark	U
Shot upward from the ground	I2
	-
Staggered as with a stunning stroke	U
I could not turn again	G2
But saw whence came the spark a smoke	U
Arise I saw it plain	H2
And from it an earthy odour broke	U
That bit me to the brain	H2
	-
At first I saw it bloating out	I2
In size not o er a span	M2
Then as it slowly wreathed about	I2
To heighten it began	M2
Until it took in bulk and look	U
The stature of a man	M2
	-
No stir was near I might but hear	T
The beating of my blood	I2
And there within my reach almost	I2
The horrid Phantom stood	I2
I stared till fear in fear was lost	I2
So awful was my mood	I2
	-
I spoke I know not what and lo	R
The diabolic birth	N2
Gan wildly writhing to and fro	R
As if in ghostly mirth	N2
And then against me rushing so	R
It dashed me to the earth	N2
	-
Mine eyes flashed out with sputtering flame	O2
The ground kept swimming fast	I2
And roaming round about there came	O2
Wild laughter in the blast	I2
A moment and then all was tame	O2
Forgotten painless past	I2
	-
At length my brain began to swim	P2
As consciousness regrew	R
But when with eyeballs strained and dim	P2
I looked again I knew	T
A form stood o er me it was him	P2
The savage that I slew	T
	-
I shrieked and bounding to my feet	I2
I fled but as before	R
Bare footsteps tracked me beat for beat	I2
With mine even to the door	R
What then befel I cannot tell	R
I know of nothing more	R
	-
He ceased and turning in his bed	I2
Aloud for mercy cried	I2
And for three days and nights tis said	I2
He uttered nought beside	I2
When raving out with sudden dread	I2
The haunted Murderer died	I2
	-
The fearful men around him then	G2
Each one of them did say	H
It was a damn ed wrong in Ned	I2
The savage so to slay	H
And where he said he saw the dead	I2
They buried him next day	H