As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd stay away

Hughes Mearns (1875-1965)

US writer and educationalist.
His books include Creative Power (1929) and Creative Adult (1940),
as well as several novels

Lines written for The Psycho-ed, an amateur play, in Philadelphia, (1910)
(set to music in (1939) as 'The Little Man Who Wasn't There')

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