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I looked for him everywhere / Because I wanted him to play; / And then I found him on his bed / Asleep, but it was day.
His eyes were shut behind the lids -- / He couldn't lift them up to see. / And I looked at him very long, / And something in him looked at me.
And he was something like a cat / That is asleep, or like a dog; / Or like a thing that's in the woods / All day behind a log.
And then I was afraid of it, / Of something that was sleeping there. / I didn't even say his name, / But I came down the stair.