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Late автор Walter de la Mare

Peacock Pie (1913)

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 Three small men in a small house,
 And none to hear them say,
 'One for his nob,' and 'One for his noddle,'
 And 'One for his dumb dog Stray!'
 'Clubs are trumps -- and he's dealt and bluffed':
 'And Jack of diamonds led':
 'And perhaps the cullie has dropped a shoe;
 He tarries so late,' they said.
 
 Three small men in a small house,
 And one small empty chair,
 One with his moleskin over his brows,
 One with his crany bare,
 And one with a dismal cast in his eye,
 Rocking a heavy head. . .
 'And perhaps the cullie's at The Wide World's End;
 He tarries so late,' they said.
 
 Three small men in a small house,
 And a candle guttering low,
 One with his cheek on the ace of spades,
 And two on the boards below.
 And a window black 'gainst a waste of stars,
 And a moon five dark nights dead. . .
 'Who's that a-knocking and a-knocking and a-knocking?'
 One stirred in his sleep and said.

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