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A Burglar on the next floor up / The sideboard was exploring. / (The family, with the brindled pup, / Were still asleep and snoring.)
Just then, up through the silverware / The rocket thundered, flaring! / The Burglar got a dreadful scare; / Then out the door went tearing.