Mr. what's-His-Name by James Whitcomb Riley

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They called him Mr. What's-his-name: / From where he was, or why he came, / Or when, or what he found to do, / Nobody in the city knew.

He lived, it seemed, shut up alone / In a low hovel of his own; / There cooked his meals and made his bed, / Careless of all his neighbors said.

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