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And the words stirred in him that vague yet terrible fear known to all children who have been frightened and made to feel afraid of the dark. Evidently his sensations were being merged very rapidly now into those of the little boy in the night-nursery bed.

"There is Someone in the Nursery

Whom we never saw before;

—Why hangs the moon so red?—

And he came not by the passage,

Or the window, or the door;

—Why hangs the moon so red?—

And he stands there in the darkness,

In the centre of the floor.

—See, where the moon hangs red!—

Someone's hiding in the passage

Where the door begins to swing;

—Why drive the clouds so fast?—

In the corner by the staircase

There's a dreadful waiting thing:

—Why drive the clouds so fast?—

Past the curtain creeps a monster

With a black and fluttering wing;

—See, where the clouds drive fast!—

In the chilly dusk of evening;

In the hush before the dawn;

—Why drips the rain so cold?—

In the twilight of the garden,

In the mist upon the lawn,

—Why drips the rain so cold?—