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I dreamed I was a spider; / A big, fat, hungry spider; / A lusty, rusty spider / With a dozen palsied limbs; / With a dozen limbs that dangled / Where three wretched flies were tangled / And their buzzing wings were strangled / In the middle of their hymns.
And I mocked them like a demon -- / A demoniacal demon / Who delights to be a demon / For the sake of sin alone; / And with fondly false embraces / Did I weave my mystic laces / Round their horror-stricken faces / Till I muffled every groan.