Some one came Knocking

From the quote last week, someone yelled and I went running.

Sorry I was gone, but now I am here.

Some one came knocking

At my wee, small door;

Some one came knocking,

I'm sure - sure - sure;

I listened, I opened,

I looked to left and right,

But nought there was a -stirring

In the still dark night;

Only the busy beetle

Tap-tapping in the wall,

Only from the forest

The screech-owl's call,

Only the cricket whistling

While the dewdrops fall,

So I know not who came knocking,

At all, at all, at all.

~Walter de la Mare

From Silver Pennies by Blanche Jennings Thompson (1940)