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Hallowe'en in a Suburb · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Halloween in a suburb. The steeples are white in the
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  Speaker 1: wild moonlight, and the trees have a silver glare. Past
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  Speaker 1: the chimneys high see the vampires fly, and the harpies
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  Speaker 1: of upper air that flutter and laugh and stare for
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  Speaker 1: the village dead to the moon outspread, never shone in
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  Speaker 1: the sunset's gleam, but grew out of the deep that
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  Speaker 1: the dead years keep, where the rivers of madness stream
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  Speaker 1: down the gulfs to a pit of dream. A chill
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  Speaker 1: wind weaves through the rows of sheaves in the meadows
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  Speaker 1: that shimmer pale, and comes to twine, where the headstones shine,
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  Speaker 1: and the gules of the churchyard whale for harvests that
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  Speaker 1: fly and fail. Not a breath of the strange, g
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  Speaker 1: ray gods of change that tore from the past its
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  Speaker 1: own can quicken this hour, when a spectral power spreads
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  Speaker 1: sleep over the cosmic throne and looses the vast unknown.
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  Speaker 1: So here again stretch the veil and plane that moons
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  Speaker 1: long forgotten saw, and the dead leap gay in the
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  Speaker 1: pallid ray, sprung out of the tomb's black maw, to
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  Speaker 1: shake all the world with awe, and all that the
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  Speaker 1: morn shall greet forlorn, the ugliness and the pest of rose.
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  Speaker 1: Where thick rise the stones and brick shall someday be
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  Speaker 1: with the rest and brood, with the shades unblest, then
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  Speaker 1: wild in the dark, let the lemurs bark, and the
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  Speaker 1: leprous spires ascend, For new and old alike, in the
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  Speaker 1: full of horror and death, are penned for the hounds
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  Speaker 1: of time to rend.