Verse of the Living Dead

(With sincere apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Part I

A ghoulish Revenant meeteth three Gallants bidden to a wedding-feast, and detaineth one.

It is a ghoulish Revenant,
And he seizeth one of three.
`By thy grey skin and fogg’d eye,
Now wherefore seize’st thou me?

The Bridegroom’s doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin ;
The guests are met, the feast is set :
May’st hear the merry din.’

He holds him with his rotting hand,
`Buh-brh-bh-BRAAINS…’ quoth he.
`Hold off! unhand me, grey-skinnd liche !’
Eftsoons his TEETH bared he.

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