The house was empty and
the people of the house
gone many months
Months for the weevil
for the patient worm
timbe r-mole softly tunnelling
  ;for the parliament of rats
Footsteps slink past
damp walls
down
long
& nbsp; corridors
< br="">Slow feet
warily scuff
bare boards
The much-bitten
&nbs p;tapestry
  ; holds
&nb sp; many
&n bsp; moths
In a certain curtain’d room
the halting steps evade
chai rs white shrouded
To twitch the winding-sheet
&n bsp;around a grand piano
thin phalanx of sound
sharp rat’s teeth edge yellow
with decay
The much-bitten
&nbs p;tapestry
  ;holds
man y
moths
On rat’s teeth-edge
  ;fingers preparate
hesitate
Then falling send
as tenantry
darnp-muffied chords
rus ting strings
a still-born song
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(Hugh Sykes Davies)
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