In the veil of the night I wandered about at the bole of a tree it did light
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I deemed it a stone at first glance, no doubt something in me was lured by its sight
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First feeble and dim but then it did shine in the shade and the colours of gold
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Thither I hurried, no longer I strolled
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Methought it was something divine
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Firmly I grasped and now i beheld
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No precious did someone bequeath, I tossed it from me and terribly yelled
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...a skull with a golden teeth!
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First feeble and dim but then it did shine in the shade and the colours of gold
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That thing of aghast it rolled and it rolled till it stopped at one place of malign
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Led by a dream
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by light deceived
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Light-hearted I strolled
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through the night
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But what the horror
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of that ghastly thing?
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It is just a burial site...
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God may know why I frantically graved, where that death's head
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did cover the ground - but what did I see!
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Unsound and depraved, my remains and their burial mound
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But the horror
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of that ghastly thing
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did show me my burial site
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The Eldrich Beguilement
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| The Vision Bleak |
