Alexandra Uitdenbogerd - Who's in the next room - текст песни (слова)

 “Who's in the next room?—who?
  I seemed to see
 Somebody in the dawning passing through,
  Unknown to me.”
 “Nay: you saw nought. He passed invisibly.”
 
  “Who's in the next room?—who?
  I seem to hear
 Somebody muttering firm in a language new
  That chills the ear.”
 “No: you catch not his tongue who has entered there.”
 
  “Who's in the next room?—who?
  I seem to feel
 His breath like a clammy draught, as if it drew
  From the Polar Wheel.”
 “No: none who breathes at all does the door conceal.”
 
  “Who's in the next room?—who?
  A figure wan
 With a message to one in there of something due?
  Shall I know him anon?”
 “Yea he; and he brought such; and you'll know him anon.”  
The mysterious “language” at bar 20 is taken from the last three lines of the poem, pronounced backwards:  “Nona mih whon loo dna chus tor ee dna ee yea
 Nona mih whon ya lash
 Oo gni thmus vo thin ah...”