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Mephistopheles <no-fixed@address.net> wrote in
news:b2gm0216mna93qeuvict992s3arvmle9g4@4ax.com:

> On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 03:30:19 GMT, Lil Stinker <anywhere@uwant2.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Mephistopheles <no-fixed@address.net> wrote in
>>news:3s4k02522e6mnf0nk72c10k6iebqp7j8hd@4ax.com:
>>
>>> Well?
>>>
>>
>>The current owner of this establishment is on hiatus.
>>If you would like to leave a query thereof.....please wait until after
>>the.....................................................
>>
>
> Is there anybody there?" said the Traveler,
> Knocking on the moonlit door;
> And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
> Of the forest's ferny floor:
> And a bird flew up out of the turret,
> Above the Traveler's head:
> And he smote upon the door again a second time;
> "Is there anybody there?' he said.
>
> But no one descended to the Traveler.
> No head from the leaf-fringed sill
> Leaned over and looked into his gray eyes,
> Where he stood perplexed and still.
> But only a host of phantom listeners
> That dwelt in the lone house then,
> Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
> To that voice from the world of men:
> Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
> That goes down to the empty hall,
> Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
> By the lonely Traveler's call.
>
> And he felt in his heart their strangeness;
> Their stillness answering his cry,
> While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
> 'Neath the starred and leafy sky;
> For he suddenly smote on the door, even
> Louder and lifted his head: -
>
> `Tell them I came, and no one answered,
> That I kept my word,' he said.
> Never the least stir made the listeners,
> Though every word he spake
> Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the house
> From the one man left awake:
> Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
> And the sound of iron on stone,
> And how the silence surged softly backward,
> When the plunging hoofs were gone."
>
> Walter De La Mare,
>
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Well maybe you could settle for o'l cosmos returned dripping from a close
encounter with a very late monsoon!

still warm an wet beats cold and frozen any day in my book
so mustnot grumble.  (much)

bfn
Cosmos

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