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Suggested by a drawing of Thomas Moran the American painter	A
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This must be the very night	B
The moon knows it and the trees	C
They stand straight upright	B
Each a sentinel drawn up	D
As if they dared not know	E
Which way the wind might blow	E
The very pool with dead gray eye	F
Dully expectant feels it nigh	F
And begins to curdle and freeze	C
And the dark night	B
With its fringe of light	B
Holds the secret in its cup	D
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II	G
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What can it be to make	H
The poplars cease to shiver and shake	H
And up in the dismal air	I
Stand straight and stiff as the human hair	I
When the human soul is dizzy with dread	J
All but those two that strain	K
Aside in a frenzy of speechless pain	K
Though never a wind sends out a breath	L
To tunnel the foggy rheum of death	L
What can it be has power to scare	I
The full grown moon to the idiot stare	I
Of a blasted eye in the midnight air	I
Something has gone wrong	M
A scream will come tearing out ere long	M
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III	G
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Still as death	L
Although I listen with bated breath	L
Yet something is coming I know is coming	N
With an inward soundless humming	N
Somewhere in me or if in the air	I
I cannot tell but it is there	I
Marching on to an unheard drumming	N
Something is coming coming	N
Growing and coming	N
And the moon is aware	I
Aghast in the air	I
At the thing that is only coming	N
With an inward soundless humming	N
And an unheard spectral drumming	N
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IV	F
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Nothing to see and nothing to hear	O
Only across the inner sky	F
The wing of a shadowy thought flits by	F
Vague and featureless faceless drear	O
Only a thinness to catch the eye	F
Is it a dim foreboding unborn	P
Or a buried memory wasted and worn	P
As the fading frost of a wintry sigh	F
Anon I shall have it anon it draws nigh	F
A night when a something it was took place	Q
That drove the blood from that scared moon face	Q
Hark was that the cry of a goat	R
Or the gurgle of water in a throat	R
Hush there is nothing to see or hear	O
Only a silent something is near	O
No knock no footsteps three or four	O
Only a presence outside the door	O
See the moon is remembering what	S
The wail of a mother left lie alone brat	T
Or a raven sharpening its beak to peck	U
Or a cold blue knife and a warm white neck	U
Or only a heart that burst and ceased	V
For a man that went away released	V
I know not know not but something is coming	N
Somehow back with an inward humming	N
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V	F
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Ha look there look at that house	W
Forsaken of all things beetle and mouse	W
Mark how it looks It must have a soul	X
It looks it looks though it cannot stir	O
See the ribs of it how they stare	O
Its blind eyes yet have a seeing air	O
It knows it has a soul	X
Haggard it hangs o'er the slimy pool	Y
And gapes wide open as corpses gape	Z
It is the very murderer	O
The ghost has modelled himself to the shape	Z
Of this drear house all sodden with woe	E
Where the deed was done long long ago	E
And filled with himself his new body full	A2
To haunt for ever his ghastly crime	B2
And see it come and go	E
Brooding around it like motionless time	B2
With a mouth that gapes and eyes that yawn	C2
Blear and blintering and full of the moon	D2
Like one aghast at a hellish dawn	C2
The deed the deed it is coming soon	D2
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VI	F
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For ever and always when round the tune	D2
Grinds on the barrel of organ Time	B2
The deed is done And it comes anon	D2
True to the roll of the clock faced moon	D2
True to the ring of the spheric chime	B2
True to the cosmic rhythm and rime	B2
Every point as it first fell out	E2
Will come and go in the fearsome bout	E2
See palsied with horror from garret to core	O
The house cannot shut its gaping door	O
Its burst eye stares as if trying to see	F
And it leans as if settling heavily	F
Settling heavy with sickness dull	F2
It also is hearing the soundless humming	N
Of the wheel that is turning the thing that is coming	N
On the naked rafters of its brain	D2
Gaunt and wintred see the train	D2
Of gossiping scandal mongering crows	G2
That watch all silent with necks a strain	D2
Wickedly knowing with heads awry	F
And the sharpened gleam of a cunning eye	F
Watch through the cracks of the ruined skull	F2
How the evil business goes	G2
Beyond the eyes of the cherubim	B2
Beyond the ears of the seraphim	B2
Outside forsaken in the dim	B2
Phantom haunted chaos grim	B2
He stands with the deed going on in him	B2
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VII	F
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O winds winds that lurk and peep	H2
Under the edge of the moony fringe	I2
O winds winds up and sweep	H2
Up and blow and billow the air	O
Billow the air with blow and swinge	I2
Rend me this ghastly house of groans	J2
Rend and scatter the skeleton's bones	J2
Over the deserts and mountains bare	O
Blast and hurl and shiver aside	K2
Nailed sticks and mortared stones	J2
Clear the phantom with torrent and tide	K2
Out of the moon and out of my brain	D2
That the light may fall shadowless in again	D2
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VIII	F
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But alas then the ghost	L2
O'er mountain and coast	L2
Would go roaming roaming and never was swine	D2
That grubbing and talking with snork and whine	D2
On Gadarene mountains had taken him in	D2
But would rush to the lake to unhouse the sin	D2
For any charnel	F2
This ghost is too carnal	F2
There is no volcano burnt out and cold	M2
Whose very ashes are gray and old	M2
But would cast him forth in reviving flame	B2
To blister the sky with a smudge of shame	B2
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IX	J2
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Is there no help none anywhere	O
Under the earth or above the air	O
Come sad woman whose tender throat	R
Has a red lipped mouth that can sing no note	R
Child whose midwife the third grim Fate	N2
Shears in hand thy coming did wait	N2
Father with blood bedabbled hair	O
Mother all withered with love's despair	O
Come broken heart whatever thou be	F
Hasten to help this misery	F
Thou wast only murdered or left forlorn	D2
He is a horror a hate a scorn	D2
Come if out of the holiest blue	F2
That the sapphire throne shines through	F2
For pity come though thy fair feet stand	O2
Next to the elder band	O2
Fling thy harp on the hyaline	D2
Hurry thee down the spheres divine	D2
Come and drive those ravens away	P2
Cover his eyes from the pitiless moon	D2
Shadow his brain from her stinging spray	P2
Droop around him a tent of love	F
An odour of grace a fanning dove	F
Walk through the house with the healing tune	D2
Of gentle footsteps banish the shape	Z
Remorse calls up thyself to ape	Z
Comfort him dear with pardon sweet	Q2
Cool his heart from its burning heat	Q2
With the water of life that laves the feet	Q2
Of the throne of God and the holy street	Q2
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X	J2
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O God he is but a living blot	R2
Yet he lives by thee for if thou wast not	R2
They would vanish together self forgot	R2
He and his crime one breathing blown	D2
From thy spirit on his would all atone	D2
Scatter the horror and bring relief	F
In an amber dawn of holy grief	F
God give him sorrow arise from within	D2
His primal being deeper than sin	D2
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XI	F
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Why do I tremble a creature at bay	P2
'Tis but a dream I drive it away	P2
Back comes my breath and my heart again	D2
Pumps the red blood to my fainting brain	D2
Released from the nightmare's nine fold train	D2
God is in heaven yes everywhere	O
And Love the all shining will kill Despair	O
To the wall's blank eyeless space	J2
I turn the picture's face	J2
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XII	J2
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But why is the moon so bare up there	O
And why is she so white	B
And why does the moon so stare up there	O
Strangely stare out of the night	B
Why stand up the poplars	J2
That still way	P2
And why do those two of them	B2
Start astray	P2
And out of the black why hangs the gray	P2
Why does it hang down so I say	P2
Over that house like a fringed pall	F2
Where the dead goes by in a funeral	F2
Soul of mine	D2
Thou the reason canst divine	D2
Into thee the moon doth stare	O
With pallid terror smitten air	O
Thou and the Horror lonely stark	S2
Outcast of eternal dark	S2
Are in nature same and one	D2
And thy story is not done	D2
So let the picture face thee from the wall	F2
And let its white moon stare	O