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He lived in Mundaloo, and Bill McClosky was his name, / But folks that knew him well had little knowledge of that same; / For he some'ow lost his surname, and he had so much to say -- / He was called "The Silent Member" in a mild, sarcastic way.
He could talk on any subject -- from the weather and the crops / To astronomy and Euclid, and he never minded stops; / And the lack of a companion didn't lay him on the shelf, / For he'd stand before a looking-glass and argue with himself.