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Specious shapes and deceitful shadows receding from his eyes -
He stood motionless, his thoughts a rapid stream.
The sway of tempests in his mind tearing the fibers of his heart,
Fanned the fever of his maddening mind, wracked with fear,
Foredoom'd to some power unseen, o'erwhelming gloom froze him!
In vain he strove against it with clench'd and trembling hands,
Casting his dark eyes away from this impetuous, dreadful spot.
Death in his mien, madness in his eye stood irresolute.
Kneeling - "Odious spirit, begone!"
This unshrieved ghost woke!
From a slumber of a thousand years to drive the night!
Fright's pensive spell in dull, brooding silence came,
So erst did he hear nothing, see nothing but darkness 'round.
Then, afar, a flutter of wings, a rustling of leaves,
To usurp the silence with a flood of hoots and caws!
It comes! There - in the distance - it comes on wings,
The billowing, black night conceal'd this apparition,
No pious man could not intervene the thrust.
Visions of dismay gripped him to a ghostly harbinger.
Not a stirring wind, not a breath of breeze - airless -
Moonless night shrouded him with morning not far off.
Shades? The flapping wings grew nearer still...
A savage, untamed, fearful, unseen, unknown beast!
Wherefore the morn to break its spell?
These were but imaginings, to pry a gasp from the soul!
Fool! There's nothing there but dark fear.
The flapping ceased, the stings of conscience grew cold.
The intruder quickly vanished - but was never there!
Cloaked in willful creation - a spectre unseen!
Created, yes, in a fearsome mind's eye...his sense came to! and then...
Called upon reason to portend this apparition away...
Peace came at last, and a sigh of rest.
Afterall, his mind was settled and conclusions made thus...
There was nothing in the dark, but darkness!
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