—I am surely going out of my mind!

I said to myself in a coaxing way—

'I am wide awake, and he has come back;

Harry is acting a sort of a play:

He has dress'd himself up, and so has Jack.'

A glance or a signal dispers'd the men:

Two went upstairs, and another below;

The leader sat down in the hall; and then—

What am I to do? Where am I to go?

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I rush'd to the door, and I flung it wide—

A frighten'd creature can anything dare—

And I saw the darkness that lay outside,

And I heard the silence—and nothing was there.

'Harry! Harry! Harry!' was all my cry,

As I stood alone at the open door;

And the night heard me—and so did the sky,

And the wind and the earth—and nothing more.

I turn'd from the door with a sad surprise:

I could call for my love and call in vain;

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