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Who's In The Next Room?

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"Who's in the next room? - who?      I seemed to see     Somebody in the dawning passing through,      Unknown to me."     "Nay: you saw nought. He passed invisibly."      "Who's in the next room? - who?      I seem to hear     Somebody muttering firm in a language new      That chills the ear."     "No: you catch not his tongue who has entered there."      "Who's in the next room? - who?      I seem to feel     His breath like a clammy draught, as if it drew      From the Polar Wheel."     "No: none who breathes at all does the door conceal."      "Who's in the next room? - who?      A figure wan     With a message to one in there of something due?      Shall I know him anon?"     "Yea he; and he brought such; and you'll know him anon."

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