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Siegfried Sassoon - The Dark HouseSiegfried Sassoon - The Dark House
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Dusk in the rain-soaked garden,   And dark the house within.   A door creaked: someone was early   To watch the dawn begin.    But he stole away like a thief  In the chilly, star-bright air:    Though the house was shuttered for slumber,    He had left one wakeful there.     Nothing moved in the garden.   Never a bird would sing, Nor shake and scatter the dew from the boughs   With shy and startled wing.    But when that lover had passed the gate    A quavering thrush began…    ‘Come back; come back!’ he shrilled to the heart  Of the passion-plighted man.
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