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I	A
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When I was a boy there was a friend of mine	B
We thought ourselves warriors and grown folk swine	B
Stupid old animals who never understood	C
And never had an impulse and said you must be good	C
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We slank like stoats and fled like foxes	D
We put cigarettes in the pillar boxes	D
Lighted cigarettes and letters all aflame	E
O the surprise when the postman came	E
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We stole eggs and apples and made fine hay	F
In people's houses when people were away	F
We broke street lamps and away we ran	G
Then I was a boy but now I am a man	G
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Now I am a man and don't have any fun	H
I hardly ever shout and I never never run	H
And I don't care if he's dead that friend of mine	B
For then I was a boy and now I am a swine	B
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II	A
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We met again the other night	I
With people you were quite polite	I
Shook my hand and spoke a while	J
Of common things with cautious smile	J
Paid the usual debt men owe	K
To fellows whom they used to know	K
But when our eyes met full yours dropped	L
And sudden resolute you stopped	L
Moving with hurried syllables	M
To make remarks to someone else	N
I caught them not to me they said	O
Let the dead past bury its dead	O
Things were very different then	P
Boys are fools and men are men	P
Several times the other night	I
You did your best to be polite	I
When in the conversation's round	Q
You heard my tongue's familiar sound	Q
You bent in eager pose my way	F
To hear what I had got to say	F
Trying you thought with some success	R
To hide the chasm's nakedness	R
But on your eyes hard films there lay	F
No mock interest no pretence	R
Could veil your blank indifference	R
And if thoughts came recalling things	R
Far off far off from those old springs	R
When underneath the moon and sun	H
Our separate pulses beat as one	H
Vagrant tender thoughts that asked	S
Admittance found the portal masked	S
You spurned them when I'd said my say	R
With laugh and nod you turned away	R
To toss your friends some easy jest	T
That smote my brow and stabbed my breast	T
Foolish though it be and vain	U
I am not master of my pain	U
And when I said good night to you	V
I hoped we should not meet again	P
And wondered how the soul I knew	V
Could change so much have I changed too	V
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III	A
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There was a man whom I knew well	W
Whose choice it was to live in hell	W
Reason there was why that was so	R
But what it was I do not know	R
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He had a room high in a tower	X
And sat there drinking hour by hour	X
Drinking drinking all alone	Y
With candles and a wall of stone	Y
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Now and then he sobered down	Z
And stayed a night with me in town	Z
If he found me with a crowd	A2
He shrank and did not speak aloud	A2
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He sat in a corner silently	B2
And others of the company	B2
Would note his curious face and eye	A
His twitching face and timid eye	A
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When they saw the eye he had	C2
They thought perhaps that he was mad	C2
I knew he was clear and sane	U
But had a horror in his brain	U
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He had much money and one friend	D2
And drank quite grimly to the end	D2
Why he chose to die in hell	W
I did not ask he did not tell	W

John Collings Squire, Sir

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