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Title: Swamp DemonsAuthor: C. A. ButzRelease date: May 24, 2010 [eBook #32503]Most recently updated: January 6, 2021Language: EnglishCredits: Produced by Greg Weeks and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Title: Swamp Demons
Author: C. A. Butz
Author: C. A. Butz
Release date: May 24, 2010 [eBook #32503]Most recently updated: January 6, 2021
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Greg Weeks and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SWAMP DEMONS ***
Transcriber's Note: This e-text was produced from Weird Tales, August-September, 1936. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
Transcriber's Note: This e-text was produced from Weird Tales, August-September, 1936. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
Swamp Demons
The lights that wink across the sodden moorLike phosphorescent eyes that beckon menTo risk fell footsteps in the treacherous fen,And sink in loathsome muck, without a spoor—What ghosts of former days, what dread allure,Abides within this subterranean den?Or, reaching out, snares victims to its ken,With wraith-like fingers, to a peril sure?'Tis told that evil things lurk out of sightWith human bones that fester in the ooze;Belike 'tis true, these bones that once were clothedIn fleshly form now harbor deadly spiteAgainst the living, and this swamp still brewsWithin its bubbling depths the curse men loathedBefore they turned to leprous Things of Night!
The lights that wink across the sodden moorLike phosphorescent eyes that beckon menTo risk fell footsteps in the treacherous fen,And sink in loathsome muck, without a spoor—What ghosts of former days, what dread allure,Abides within this subterranean den?Or, reaching out, snares victims to its ken,With wraith-like fingers, to a peril sure?
The lights that wink across the sodden moor
Like phosphorescent eyes that beckon men
To risk fell footsteps in the treacherous fen,
And sink in loathsome muck, without a spoor—
What ghosts of former days, what dread allure,
Abides within this subterranean den?
Or, reaching out, snares victims to its ken,
With wraith-like fingers, to a peril sure?
'Tis told that evil things lurk out of sightWith human bones that fester in the ooze;Belike 'tis true, these bones that once were clothedIn fleshly form now harbor deadly spiteAgainst the living, and this swamp still brewsWithin its bubbling depths the curse men loathedBefore they turned to leprous Things of Night!
'Tis told that evil things lurk out of sight
With human bones that fester in the ooze;
Belike 'tis true, these bones that once were clothed
In fleshly form now harbor deadly spite
Against the living, and this swamp still brews
Within its bubbling depths the curse men loathed
Before they turned to leprous Things of Night!