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THERE was a sound of hurrying feet	A
A tramp on echoing stairs	B
There was a rush along the aisles	C
It was the hour of prayers	B
	-
And on like Ocean's midnight wave	D
The current rolled along	E
When suddenly a stranger form	F
Was seen amidst the throng	E
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He was a dark and swarthy man	G
That uninvited guest	H
A faded coat of bottle green	I
Was buttoned round his breast	H
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There was not one among them all	J
Could say from whence he came	K
Nor beardless boy nor ancient man	G
Could tell that stranger's name	K
	-
All silent as the sheeted dead	L
In spite of sneer and frown	M
Fast by a gray haired senior's side	N
He sat him boldly down	M
	-
There was a look of horror flashed	O
From out the tutor's eyes	P
When all around him rose to pray	Q
The stranger did not rise	P
	-
A murmur broke along the crowd	R
The prayer was at an end	S
With ringing heels and measured tread	L
A hundred forms descend	S
	-
Through sounding aisle o'er grating stair	T
The long procession poured	U
Till all were gathered on the seats	V
Around the Commons board	U
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That fearful stranger down he sat	W
Unasked yet undismayed	W
And on his lip a rising smile	X
Of scorn or pleasure played	W
	-
He took his hat and hung it up	Y
With slow but earnest air	T
He stripped his coat from off his back	Z
And placed it on a chair	T
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Then from his nearest neighbor's side	W
A knife and plate he drew	A2
And reaching out his hand again	B2
He took his teacup too	A2
	-
How fled the sugar from the bowl	C2
How sunk the azure cream	D2
They vanished like the shapes that float	W
Upon a summer's dream	D2
	-
A long long draught an outstretched hand	W
And crackers toast and tea	W
They faded from the stranger's touch	E2
Like dew upon the sea	W
	-
Then clouds were dark on many a brow	F2
Fear sat upon their souls	G2
And in a bitter agony	W
They clasped their buttered rolls	G2
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A whisper trembled through the crowd	W
Who could the stranger be	W
And some were silent for they thought	W
A cannibal was he	W
	-
What if the creature should arise	P
For he was stout and tall	J
And swallow down a sophomore	H2
Coat crow's foot cap and all	J
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All sullenly the stranger rose	I2
They sat in mute despair	T
He took his hat from off the peg	J2
His coat from off the chair	T
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Four freshmen fainted on the seat	W
Six swooned upon the floor	H2
Yet on the fearful being passed	W
And shut the chapel door	H2
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There is full many a starving man	G
That walks in bottle green	I
But never more that hungry one	K2
In Commons hall was seen	I
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Yet often at the sunset hour	L2
When tolls the evening bell	M2
The freshman lingers on the steps	N2
That frightful tale to tell	M2

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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