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SOME ONE by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

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First Line: SOME ONE CAME KNOCKING
Last Line: AT ALL, AT ALL, AT ALL.
Some one came knocking
At my wee, small door;
Some one came knocking,
I'm sure -- sure -- sure;
I listened, I opened,
I looked to left and right,
But nought there was a-stirring
In the still dark night;
Only the busy beetle
Tap-tapping in the wall,
Only from the forest
The screech-owl's call,
Only the cricket whistling
While the dewdrops fall,
So I know not who came knocking,
At all, at all, at all.



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