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The Mouse

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Standing close by you     In the cold light     Of two tall candles     That measure the dark of night,     I hear the mouse,     The only thing that's moving     In the quiet house.     Don't you hear it,     That furious mouse?     How can you sleep so deep     And that noise in the house?     Won't you stir     At the furious scratching     In the cupboard there?     No! a sharper sound     Would wake you not;     Not the sweetest fluting     Tease you back to thought.     Yet the scratching mouse     Makes all my flesh a nervous     Haunted house.     O, the dream, the dream     Must be sweet and deep     If life's scratching's heard not     On your cold sleep.     Yet if you should hear it,     So furious and fretful--     How could you bear it?

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