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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365983" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shadow of Elspeth Brown</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sky was grey on that fateful day, <br>The sun was going down, <br>I made my way through a field of hay<br>To the cottage of Elspeth Brown.<br>She lived alone by the forest there<br>And studied her ancient tomes, <br>Her Grimoires, Necronomicons, <br>And her hearth was filled with bones! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd loved the girl for a year or two<br>And I'd made my interest known, <br>She was torn, she said, by the spells in her head, <br>She needed to be alone.<br>I knew she was seeing another guy<br>He called when I wasn't around, <br>‘He's more like the shade of a ghost, ' she said, <br>‘I raised him, out of the ground! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She looked distraught as she waved me in, <br>Her hair was a tangled mess, <br>A book that featured some ugly Djin<br>Lay open across her dress.<br>I've never been one for the ancient arts<br>Of Magick, or spells and glooms, <br>But Elspeth wanted to play her part, <br>Cast spells in the afternoons! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw a copy of Crowley there, <br>A copy of Dragon Noir, <br>The Grimoire of Honorius<br>Was scattered across a chair! <br>‘What horrible Djin have you raised up<br>From the terrible realm of hell? '<br>I laughed, but Elspeth began to frown<br>And conjured another spell! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Three bat-wings and a gouty toad<br>And a strand of a maiden's hair, <br>A philtre of deadly nightshade stirred<br>With the leg of a wooden chair! <br>A third of a pint of hemlock, gathered<br>Close to the midnight hour…'<br>The sun was gone and the bright moon shone<br>Through the door of my lady's bower! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought to say it was nonsense, <br>Raised my eyes and stared in the gloom, <br>And there was her patient shadow cast<br>On the whitewashed wall of the room, <br>A shadow hand ran up through the hair<br>So tangled, under her cap, <br>I looked again at my erstwhile friend, <br>Her hands were down in her lap! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I felt the hairs on the back of my neck<br>Rise up, and a breathless chill, <br>The shadow had suddenly straightened up<br>My heart was standing still, <br>Two horns curled out of the shadow's head<br>Distinct on the further wall, <br>When Elspeth suddenly screamed, and said: <br>‘My skin's beginning to crawl! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She spilled the book on the oaken floor, <br>Jumped up and looked at the wall, <br>The shadow that she had claimed for her own<br>Was suddenly eight feet tall, <br>It raised its hands in a threatening way<br>Against all physical laws, <br>I went to say, in a blank dismay: <br>‘Those fingers look like claws! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We rushed together, out of the door, <br>Her screaming, me in fright, <br>The moon was rising, up in the sky, <br>You couldn't tell day from night, <br>The shadow followed, hard on our heels<br>And spread out over the ground, <br>I noticed it wasn't attached to her feet, <br>But followed with never a sound! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It moved around, ran by her side, <br>And then I saw it ahead, <br>She stopped in horror, whatever she'd done, <br>She'd summoned a Djin from the dead! <br>‘You'll have to set up an undo spell, '<br>I knew that she was to blame, <br>‘I can't, ' she muttered, ‘I don't know how, <br>He was here before you came! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She wandered back to the cottage at last, <br>‘It's only a shadow, ' she said, <br>‘I shouldn't be worried, it won't hurt me! '<br>I turned on my heel, and fled! <br>I'm such a coward with magical things, <br>I ran full pelt all the way, <br>Then lay in dread, hid under my bed<br>‘Til the sun came up, next day! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I finally plucked the courage up<br>To return to the cottage there, <br>I stood in the yard, and called on out: <br>‘Elspeth - come out if you dare! '<br>A shadow stood in the hallway<br>And my heart, it turned to stone, <br>As I read the note on the lintel post, <br>‘I want to be left alone! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun was high in the morning sky<br>As I looked on down at my feet, <br>There wasn't a sign of a shadow there, <br>My heart then skipped a beat, <br>For there on the inner whitewashed wall<br>And beyond the hallway Djin, <br>I could see two shadows, making love, <br>But I hadn't the nerve to go in!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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The sun was going down, 
I made my way through a field of hay
To the cottage of Elspeth Brown.
She lived alone by the forest there
And studied her ancient tomes, 
Her Grimoires, Necronomicons, 
And her hearth..."></div>
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