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The trees took on fantastic shapes	A
That night when I came to the grange	B
The very bushes seemed to change	B
This seemed a hag's head that an ape's	A
The road itself seemed darkly strange	B
That night when I came to the grange	B
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The storm had passed but still the night	C
Cloaked with deep clouds its true intent	D
And moody on its way now went	D
With muttered thunder and the light	C
Torch like of lightning that was spent	D
Flickering the mask of its intent	D
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Like some hurt thing that bleeds to death	E
Yet never moves nor heaves a sigh	F
Some last drops shuddered from the sky	F
The darkness seemed to hold its breath	E
To see the sullen tempest die	F
That never moved nor heaved a sigh	F
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Within my path among the weeds	A
The glow worm like an evil eye	F
Glared malice and the boughs on high	F
Flung curses at me menaced deeds	A
Of darkness if I passed them by	F
They and the glow worm's glaring eye	F
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The night wind rose and raved at me	G
Hung in the tree beside the gate	H
The gate that snarled its iron hate	H
Above the gravel grindingly	I
And set its teeth to make me wait	H
Beside the one tree near the gate	H
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The next thing that I knew a bat	J
Out of the rainy midnight swept	K
An evil blow and then there crept	K
Malignant with its head held flat	J
A hiss before me as I stept	J
A fang that from the midnight swept	J
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I drew my dagger then the blade	J
That never failed me in my need	J
'Twere well to be prepared indeed	J
Who knew what waited there what shade	J
Or substance banded to impede	J
My entrance of which there was need	J
	-
The blade at least was tangible	I
Among the shadows I must face	A
Its touch was real and in case	A
Hate waylaid me would serve me well	I
I needed something in that place	A
Among the shadows I must face	A
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The dead thorn took me by surprise	A
A hag like thing with twisted clutch	L
From o'er the wall I felt it touch	L
My brow with talons at my eyes	A
It seemed to wave a knotted crutch	L
A hag like thing with twisted clutch	L
	-
A hound kept howling in the night	J
He and the wind were all I heard	J
The wind that maundered some dark word	J
Of wrong that nothing would make right	J
To every rain dropp that it stirred	J
The hound and wind were all I heard	J
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The grange was silent as the dead	J
I looked at the dark face of it	J
Nowhere was any candle lit	J
It looked like some huge nightmare head	J
With death's head eyes I paused a bit	J
To study the dark face of it	J
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And then I rang and knocked I gave	M
The great oak door loud blow on blow	I
No servant answered wild below	I
The echoes clanged as in a cave	M
The evil mansion seemed to know	I
Who struck the door with blow on blow	I
	-
Silence no chink of light to say	A
That he and his were living there	N
That sinful man with snow white hair	N
That creature I had come to slay	A
That wretched thing who did not dare	N
Reveal that he was hiding there	N
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I broke my dagger on the door	O
Yet woke but echoes in the hall	I
Then set my hands unto the wall	I
And clomb the ivy as before	O
In boyhood to a window tall	I
That was my room's once in that hall	I
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At last I stood again where he	G
That vile man with the sneering face	A
That fiend that foul spot on our race	A
Had sworn none of our family	G
Should ever stand again the place	A
Was dark as his own devil's face	A
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I stood and felt as if some crime	P
Closed in on me hedged me around	J
It clutched at me from closets bound	J
Its arms around me time on time	P
I turned and grasped but nothing found	J
Only the blackness all around	J
	-
The darkness took me by the throat	J
I could not hear but felt it hiss	A
'Take this you hound and this and this '	-
Then all at once afar remote	J
I heard a door clang Murder is	A
More cautious yet whose was that hiss	A
	-
Oh for a light The blackness jeered	J
And mouthed at me its sullen face	A
Was as a mask on all the place	A
From which two sinister sockets leered	J
A death's head that my eyes could trace	A
That stared me sullen in the face	A
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Then silence packed the hall and stair	N
And crammed the rooms from attic down	Q
Since that far door had clanged its frown	Q
Upon the darkness everywhere	N
Had settled like a graveyard gown	Q
It clothed the house from attic down	Q
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And then I heard a groan and one	R
Long sigh then silence Who was near	S
Was it the darkness at my ear	T
That mocked me with a deed undone	R
Or was it he who waited here	T
To kill me when I had drawn near	S
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I drew my sword then stood and stared	J
Into the night that was a mask	U
To all the house that made my task	U
A hopeless one Ah had it bared	J
Its teeth at me what more to ask	U
My sword had gone through teeth and mask	U
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It was not fair to me my cause	A
The villain darkness bound my eyes	A
Why even the moon refused to rise	A
It might have helped me in that pause	A
Before I groped the room whose size	A
Seemed monstrous to my night bound eyes	A
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What was it that I stumbled on	V
God for a light that I might see	G
There something sat that stared at me	G
Some loathsome twisted thing the spawn	V
Of hell and midnight Was it he	G
God for a light that I might see	G
	-
And then the moon thank Heaven the moon	W
Broke through the clouds a face chalk white	J
Now then at last I had a light	J
And then I saw the thing seemed hewn	W
From marble at the moment's sight	J
Bathed in the full moon's wistful white	J
	-
He sat or rather crouched there dead	J
Her dagger in his heart that girl's	A
His open eyes as white as pearls	A
Malignant staring overhead	J
One hand clutched full of torn out curls	A
Her dagger in his heart that girl's	A
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I knew the blade Why I had seen	X
The thing stuck in her gipsy hair	N
Worn as they wear them over there	N
In Spain its gold hilt crusted green	X
With jade like gems of cruel glare	N
She wore it in her gipsy hair	N
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She called it her'green wasp ' and smiled	J
As if of some such deed she dreamed	J
And yet to me she always seemed	J
A child a little timid child	J
Who at a mouse has often screamed	J
And yet of deeds like this she dreamed	J
	-
Where was she now Some pond or pool	I
Would yield her body up some day	J
Poor little waif that'd gone astray	J
And I oh God how great a fool	I
To know so long and yet delay	J
Some pond would yield her up some day	J
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The world was phantomed with the mist	J
That night when I came from the grange	B
So she had stabbed him It was strange	B
Who would have thought that she who kiss'd	J
Would kill him too Well women change	B
Their curse is on the lonely grange	B