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heard of one, a gentle soul,

Though given to sadness and to gloom,

And for the fact will vouch, one night

It chanc'd that by a taper's light

This man was reading in his room;

Reading, as you or I might read

At night in any pious book,

When sudden blackness overspread

The snow-white page on which he read,

And made the good man round him look.