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The lone man gazed and gazed upon his gold	A
His sweat his blood the wage of weary days	B
But now how sweet how doubly sweet to hold	A
All gay and gleamy to the campfire blaze	B
The evening sky was sinister and cold	A
The willows shivered wanly lay the snow	C
The uncommiserating land so old	A
So worn so grey so niggard in its woe	C
Peered through its ragged shroud The lone man sighed	D
Poured back the gaudy dust into its poke	E
Gazed at the seething river listless eyed	D
Loaded his corn cob pipe as if to smoke	E
Then crushed with weariness and hardship crept	F
Into his ragged robe and swiftly slept	F
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Hour after hour went by a shadow slipped	G
From vasts of shadow to the camp fire flame	H
Gripping a rifle with a deadly aim	H
A gaunt and hairy man with wolfish eyes	I
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The sleeper dreamed and lo this was his dream	J
He rode a streaming horse across a moor	K
Sudden 'mid pit black night a lightning gleam	J
Showed him a way side inn forlorn and poor	L
A sullen host unbarred the creaking door	M
And led him to a dim and dreary room	N
Wherein he sat and poked the fire a roar	M
So that weird shadows jigged athwart the gloom	N
He ordered wine 'Od's blood but he was tired	O
What matter Charles was crushed and George was King	P
His party high in power how he aspired	Q
Red guineas packed his purse too tight to ring	P
The fire light gleamed upon his silken hose	R
His silver buckles and his powdered wig	S
What ho more wine He drank he slowly rose	R
What made the shadows dance that madcap jig	S
He clutched the candle steered his way to bed	T
And in a trice was sleeping like the dead	T
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Across the room there crept so shadow soft	U
His sullen host with naked knife a gleam	J
A gaunt and hairy man with wolfish eyes	I
And as he lay the sleeper dreamed a dream	J
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'Twas in a ruder land a wilder day	V
A rival princeling sat upon his throne	W
Within a dungeon dark and foul he lay	V
With chains that bit and festered to the bone	W
They haled him harshly to a vaulted room	N
Where One gazed on him with malignant eye	X
And in that devil face he read his doom	N
Knowing that ere the dawn light he must die	X
Well he was sorrow glutted let them bring	P
Their prize assassins to the bloody work	Y
His kingdom lost yet would he die a King	P
Fearless and proud as when he faced the Turk	Y
Ah God the glory of that great Crusade	Z
The bannered pomp the gleam the splendid urge	A2
The crash of reeking combat blade to blade	Z
The reeling ranks blood avid and a surge	A2
For long he thought then feeling o'er him creep	B2
Vast weariness he fell into a sleep	B2
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The cell door opened soft the headsman came	H
Within his hand a mighty axe a gleam	J
A gaunt and hairy man with wolfish eyes	I
And as he lay the sleeper dreamed a dream	J
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'Twas in a land unkempt of life's red dawn	C2
Where in his sanded cave he dwelt alone	W
Sleeping by day or sometimes worked upon	D2
His flint head arrows and his knives of stone	W
By night stole forth and slew the savage boar	M
So that he loomed a hunter of loud fame	H
And many a skin of wolf and wild cat wore	M
And counted many a flint head to his name	H
Wherefore he walked the envy of the band	E2
Hated and feared but matchless in his skill	F2
Till lo one night deep in that shaggy land	E2
He tracked a yearling bear and made his kill	F2
Then over worn he rested by a stream	J
And sank into a sleep too deep for dream	J
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Hunting his food a rival caveman crept	F
Through those dark woods and marked him where he lay	V
Cowered and crawled upon him as he slept	F
Poising a mighty stone aloft to slay	V
A gaunt and hairy man with wolfish eyes	I
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The great stone crashed The Dreamer shrieked and woke	E
And saw fear blinded in his dripping cell	G2
A gaunt and hairy man who with one stroke	E
Swung a great ax of steel that flashed and fell	G2
So that he woke amid his bedroom gloom	N
And saw hair poised a naked thirsting knife	H2
A gaunt and hairy man with eyes of doom	N
And then the blade plunged down to drink his life	H2
So that he woke wrenched back his robe and looked	I2
And saw beside his dying fire upstart	J2
A gaunt and hairy man with finger crooked	K2
A rifle rang a bullet searched his heart	J2
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The morning sky was sinister and cold	A
Grotesque the Dreamer sprawled and did not rise	I
For long and long there gazed upon some gold	A
A gaunt and hairy man with wolfish eyes	I

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