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At length the Mayor broke silence:
....For a guilder Id my ermine gown sell,
....I wish I were a mile hence!
....Its easy to bid one rack ones brain---
....Im sure my poor head aches again,
....Ive scratched it so, and all in vain.
....Oh for a trap, a trap, a trap!
Just as he said this, what should hap
At the chamber door but a gentle tap?
....Bless us, cried the Mayor, ....whats that?
(With the Corporation as he sat,
Looking little though wondrous fat;
Nor brighter was his eye, nor moister
Than a too-long-opened oyster,
Save when at noon his paunch grew mutinous
For a plate of turtle green and glutinous)
....Only a scraping of shoes on the mat?
....Anything like the sound of a rat
....Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!
....Come in!---the Mayor cried, looking bigger:
And in did come the strangest figure!
His queer long coat from heel to head
Was half of yellow and half of red,
And he himself was tall and thin,
With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin,
And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin,
No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin,
But lips where smiles went out and in;
There was no guessing his kith and kin:
And nobody could enough admire
The tall man and his quaint attire.
Quoth one: ....Its as my great-grandsire,
....Starting up at the Trump of Dooms tone,
....Had walked this way from his painted tombstone!
He advanced to the council-table
And, ....Please your honours, said he, ....Im able,
....By means of a secret charm, to draw
....All creatures living beneath the sun,
....That creep or swim or fly or run,
....After me so as you never saw!
....And I chiefly use my charm
....On creatures that do people harm,
....The mole and toad and newt and viper;
....And people call me the Pied Piper.
- Robert Browning "The Pied Piper of Hamlin"
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