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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366000" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Valley of Dreadful Night</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He hid in the fields and hedgerows, <br>And skirted the towns by night, <br>He lay in the barns of deserted farms<br>To sleep, when the time was right.<br>He always kept one step ahead<br>Of the pack that would hunt him down, <br>And stole his food in the neighbourhood<br>Of the cottages, far from town! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He thought of his love, his Jenny, <br>And gave out a savage cry, <br>He'd found her lying with Jack Malone<br>Like a pig, in a rutting sty, <br>He'd plunged the dagger into the heart<br>Of his love, and his one delight, <br>Then watched the fire leach out of her eyes<br>To the Valley of Dreadful Night! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Malone, he'd left as a warning, <br>His throat slit ear to ear, <br>No more was the great philanderer<br>To bed any woman here, <br>He propped him up at the old crossroads, <br>He nailed his corpse to a tree, <br>And left a sign: ‘I was caught in crime, <br>Now look what's happened to me! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His nights, they were black and broken<br>By dreams that troubled his sleep, <br>For Jenny would seem to be woken<br>From the depths of a bottomless creek, <br>She raged in his shallow nightmares, <br>What she said would leave him agape: <br>‘I never loved any man but you, <br>It was simply a case of rape! ' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then he moaned and cried in confusion, <br>And he wept ‘til he lay awake, <br>With his tear-stained face now broken, <br>With the loss of his heartfelt hate, <br>And he mourned the loss of his Jenny, <br>The girl with the wide, bright eyes, <br>And he cursed himself for a felon, <br>And the life that he now despised! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They found him there in the morning, <br>They beat, and bound him in chain, <br>Then dragged him off to the magistrates<br>As he sank in his pit of pain.<br>The judge put on the dread black cap<br>And thundered the words that he said: <br>‘I have no choice but to sentence you<br>To be hanged by the neck, ‘til dead! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun, it was barely rising, <br>He could hear the birds from his cell, <br>Fluttering up in the willow tree<br>By the gallows, his personal hell, <br>They looped the rope down over his neck<br>And he said: ‘It's only right! ' <br>As he crashed down into a dreamless sleep<br>In the Valley of Dreadful Night! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">16 April 2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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And skirted the towns by night, 
He lay in the barns of deserted farms
To sleep, when the time was right.
He always kept one step ahead
Of the pack that would hunt him down, 
And stole his food in the neighbour..."></div>
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