Someone

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Someone

Someone came knocking

  At my wee, small door;

Someone came knocking,

  I'm sure -- sure -- sure;

I listened, I opened,

  I looked to left and right,

But nought there was a-stirring

  In the still dark night.

Only the busy beetle

  Tap-tapping in the wall,

Only from the forest

  The screech-owl's call,

Only the cricket whistling

  While the dew drops fall,

So I know not who came knocking,

  At all, at all, at all.

~ Walter de la Mare