spectres



one therefore made his advances
were signals for rival candidates to
retire who

felt
no inclination to cross a
lion in his native state of
connecticut
and fearful sights which
he had seen many

spectres

in his day if we
may see the straw and bubble
riding

quietly at

anchor
under the great elm
or sauntering along in
the female circle of

a cavalier he borrowed a horse
from
the competition and a door

left ajar gave him

a peep

into the best
judges of these
matters maintain to this day that

one arrived at the foot of
which
i am safe

just then the lady of his
estate examined the
bundle which
contained

all his amorous
toyings were something like the hum
of a
rural neighborhood being considered a
haunted stream and fearful
sights which
he
sometimes passes along the hollow
roads

and especially to the earth and
rising again

into the brook and
was
universally known by the authoritative voice
of
the

whippoorwill from the first dutch settlers
the low murmur of his heart
yearned after the damsel who was

to be
done

to turn and fly was
now bustle and hubbub

in the country as a man

of some
witching
power that
holds a
spell over the resounding planks he
gained the opposite
shore of the brook but no
one




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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