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Quaint and forgotten, by an unused road, / An old house stands: around its doors the dense / Blue iron-weeds grow high; / The chipmunks make a highway of its fence; / And on its sunken flagstones slug and toad / Silent as lichens lie.
The timid snake upon its hearth's cool sand / Sleeps undisturbed; the squirrel haunts its roof; / And in the clapboard sides / Of closets, dim with many a spider woof, / Like the uncertain tapping of a hand, / The beetle-borer hides.