The Listeners by Walter de la Mare
Language Level: Intermediate B1-2
A mysterious traveller calls at a very strange house.
"Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence ate the grass
Of the forest's floor;
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller's head:
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