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The Old Observatory

I dared not move a muscle or make a sound
For fear they’d find me hanging around—
And then what would my paltry life be worth?
Undoubtedly nobody else on earth

Yet knew this old and long-forgotten place
Harbored two visitors from outer space:

I had stumbled on aliens hidden
In a place to the public forbidden.

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