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Eugene Field - The Night Wind
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Have you ever heard the wind go "Yooooo"?
`T is a pitiful sound to hear!
It seems to chill you through and through
With a strange and speechless fear.
`T is the voice of the night that broods outside
When folk should be asleep,
And many and many`s the time I`ve cried
To the darkness brooding far and wide
Over the land and the deep:
Whom do you want, O lonely night,
That you wail the long hours through?"
And the night would say in its ghostly way:
    "Yoooooooo!
     Yoooooooo!
     Yoooooooo!"

My mother told me long ago
(When I was a little tad)
That when the night went wailing so,
Somebody had been bad;
And then, when I was snug in bed,
Whither I had been sent,
With the blankets pulled up round my head,
I`d think of what my mother`d said,
And wonder what boy she meant!
And "Who`s been bad to-day?" I`d ask
Of the wind that hoarsely blew,
And the voice would say in its meaningful way:
    "Yoooooooo!
     Yoooooooo!
     Yoooooooo!"

That this was true I must allow -
You`ll not believe it, though!
Yes, though I`m quite a model now,
I was not always so.
And if you doubt what things I say,
Suppose you make the test;
Suppose, when you`ve been bad some day
And up to bed are sent away
From mother and the rest -
Suppose you ask, "Who has been bad?"
And then you`ll hear what`s true;
For the wind will moan in its ruefulest tone:
    "Yoooooooo!
     Yoooooooo!
     Yoooooooo!"
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