The Rider
by Ruth
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_Whenever the moon and the stars are set
Whenever the wind is high
All night long in the dark and the wet
A man goes riding by
Late in the night when the fires are out
Why does he gallop and gallop about?_
- “Windy Nights” _ A Child’s Garden of Verses_
Robert Louis Stevenson
(
drumming hoofbeats outside on the road )