A JANUARY NIGHT (1879)
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The rain smites more and more, The east wind snarls and sneezes; Through the joints of the quivering door The water wheezes.
The tip of each ivy-shoot Writhes on its neighbour’s face; There is some hid dread afoot That we cannot trace.
Is it the spirit astray Of the man at the house below Whose coffin they took in to-day? We do not know.