POETRY ANTHOLOGY

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THE EERIE EVENT With the Traveller (who is a Ghost)

ANAHITA ROY

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century ago, as the Traveller approached

A solitary home in a glade, The leaden clouds cover the moon and a blackbird cawed The traveller rasped the door that had been recently made! “I beg you to let me in, “ said he in a ghostly way. The Listeners were paralysed with terror and afraid, A window opened and a gust of wind flew in. Before they knew it, there was nobody to give them aid. “Tell them I came but you were too arrogant to answer. Tell them I kept my word,” the Traveller said. When helot , he dropped a strange familiar Item along with a deathbed.


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