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The man that rooms next door to me	A
Two weeks ago this very night	B
He took possession quietly	A
As any other lodger might	B
But why the room next mine should so	C
Attract him I was vexed to know	C
Because his quietude in fine	D
Was far superior to mine	D
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'Now I like quiet truth to tell	E
A tranquil life is sweet to me	A
But this ' I sneered 'suits me too well	E
He shuts his door so noiselessly	E
And glides about so very mute	F
In each mysterious pursuit	F
His silence is oppressive and	G
Too deep for me to understand '	-
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Sometimes forgetting book or pen	H
I've found my head in breathless poise	I
Lifted and dropped in shame again	H
Hearing some alien ghost of noise	I
Some smothered sound that seemed to be	A
A trunk lid dropped unguardedly	E
Or the crisp writhings of some quire	J
Of manuscript thrust in the fire	K
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Then I have climbed and closed in vain	L
My transom opening in the hall	E
Or close against the window pane	L
Have pressed my fevered face but all	E
The day or night without held not	M
A sight or sound or counter thought	N
To set my mind one instant free	A
Of this man's silent mastery	A
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And often I have paced the floor	O
With muttering anger far at night	B
Hearing and cursing o'er and o'er	K
The muffled noises and the light	B
And tireless movements of this guest	P
Whose silence raged above my rest	P
Hoarser than howling storms at sea	A
The man that rooms next door to me	A
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But twice or thrice upon the stair	Q
I've seen his face most strangely wan	R
Each time upon me unaware	Q
He came smooth'd past me and was gone	S
So like a whisper he went by	T
I listened after ear and eye	T
Nor could my chafing fancy tell	E
The meaning of one syllable	E
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Last night I caught him face to face	U
He entering his room and I	T
Glaring from mine He paused a space	U
And met my scowl all shrinkingly	E
But with full gentleness The key	A
Turned in his door and I could see	A
It tremblingly withdrawn and put	V
Inside and then the door was shut	W
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Then silence Silence why last night	B
The silence was tumultuous	X
And thundered on till broad daylight	B
O never has it stunned me thus	X
It rolls and moans and mumbles yet	Y
Ah God how loud may silence get	Y
When man mocks at a brother man	Z
Who answers but as silence can	Z
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The silence grew and grew and grew	A2
Till at high noon to day 'twas heard	B2
Throughout the house and men flocked through	A2
The echoing halls with faces blurred	B2
With pallor gloom and fear and awe	C2
And shuddering at what they saw	D2
The quiet lodger as he lay	E
Stark of the life he cast away	E
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So strange to night those voices there	Q
Where all so quiet was before	O
They say the face has not a care	Q
Nor sorrow in it any more	O
His latest scrawl 'Forgive me You	A2
Who prayed 'they know not what they do ''	-
My tears wilt never let me see	A
This man that rooms next door to me	A

James Whitcomb Riley

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