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Panic

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The eyes of the portraits on the wall     Look at me, follow me,     Stare incessantly:     I take it their glance means nothing at all?      - Clearly, oh clearly! Nothing at all ...     Out in the gardens by the lake     The sleeping peacocks suddenly wake;     Out in the gardens, moonlit and forlorn,     Each of them sounds his mournful horn:     Shrill peals that waver and crack and break.     What can have made the peacocks wake?

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