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There's something now that no one knows	A
That never seems to mind me	B
Where is it that my shadow goes	A
That often walks behind me	B
Where does it go when I come home	C
For often I'm without it	D
It's queer and very worrisome	E
I'd like to know about it	D
	-
When I go out on sunny days	F
Why there it is beside me	B
And there it skips and there it plays	F
And from it I can't hide me	B
I cannot run away from it	D
It runs as fast as Fido	G
And if I stand or if I sit	D
It stands and sits as I do	H
	-
But if I run into a square	I
Where trees stand or a dwelling	J
Why then it's gone I wonder where	I
Who knows It's hard as spelling	J
And then it never says a word	K
It's surely in a trance or	L
Just deaf and dumb and never heard	K
If not why don't it answer	M
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And in the moonlight when I walk	N
Why then it walks before me	B
And mimics me but will not talk	N
But rather seems t' ignore me	B
And I have noticed that at noon	O
I walk on it it's smaller	M
But in the night time by the moon	O
It's often ten times taller	M
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But at the door both day and night	P
It never fails to leave me	B
That is unless there is a light	P
By which it may perceive me	B
Why don't it go to bed with me	B
Why don't it lie beside me	B
It seems to lack in courtesy	B
And often can't abide me	B
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Why should it come to skip and run	Q
Without a word or comment	R
And stay with me in moon and sun	Q
Then quit me in a moment	S
Why don't it come in doors and play	T
I'm sure that it is able	U
Why don't it stay with me all day	T
And eat with me at table	U
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But that's the way it is you see	B
When one is least expecting	J
It leaves or comes quite suddenly	B
From where there's no detecting	J
Sometimes it's short sometimes it's long	V
Sometimes it's just a glimmer	M
It acts so queer I know it's wrong	V
And puzzling as my primer	M
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For sometimes when by candlelight	P
I go to bed it quivers	B
Upon the stairs out of the night	P
And scares me into shivers	B
From ghostly corners humped and gnarled	W
It leaps or down the ceiling	J
Crabbed crook d kneed and knuckle snarled	X
Goes gesturing and reeling	J
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But where it goes when I'm in bed	Y
And fast asleep and dreaming	J
No one can tell me Mother said	Y
That I beat all for scheming	J
And bothering her with questions that	Z
She wished I was as quiet	A2
As is my shadow or the cat	Z
Dear knows she'd profit by it	D
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My father said he'd come to find	B2
That it is most bewild'rin'	Q
He had no doubt it changed its mind	B2
As frequently as children	Q
'I can't ' he said 'tell where it goes	B
Or stays when gone denied you	H
Unless it goes as I suppose	B
And lives and hides inside you '	-

Madison Julius Cawein

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