The Man Upon the Moor
The Dwellers on the Threshold
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Sitting in my study Drawing upon a pipe of clay Simply sitting, smoking softly I endure the remaining day. Harder still fell the rain Against the glassless pane Louder still was heard The rapping, tapping of his cane As I rose to bid him in I reeled at the sight He was already there Beside my chair And he brought with him the night Sir, said he respectfully If I may speak free A scotch and smoke In trade for tale This night I'd share with thee His manner calm as he sat Upon the moistened floor And as he lit his pipe I gazed out upon the moor Not a word said he For at least an hour more Speak up my man, out with your tale This I do implore But when he spoke aloud And ceased his muted way His tale chilled both my bone and blood And stole my breath away Will he ever leave? The man upon the moor Or will he, always be, rapping, tapping at my door Joseph Craig Dobler, employed me but a year I took his life, and then his wife As my own to love so dear But alas!? She knows the truth at last It is so she screams Dobler's ghost has come to her He speaks into her dreams Now his spirit shall haunt and spook, wherever I may be Already twice this night, upon the moor was he Such is how I came into your house so free For when next he comes I'll surely die But with sin confessed to thee Will he ever leave? The man upon the moor Or will he, always be, rapping, tapping at my door The wind did gust and blow through the glassless pane And it seemed we both could hear the rapping, tapping of a cane The man stood up as if to leave but could not find his nerve And as he looked into the night I watched his body swerve Then we both grew chill as the knob into my dwelling turned What demon from Hell, had arisen, its body blackened, burned But the knob it stopped and then was heard upon the door so plain Louder, louder came the rapping, tapping of his cane No more, no more! He cried with palms upturned I could not bear to see its face and body blackened, burned The man turned in horror and fell out through the glassless pane Nevermore to suffer the terrible tapping of the cane Oh how I loathe, even now, the sound of rain upon the plain For now I always seem to hear the rapping, tapping of a cane
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