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There are some things that entertain me more / Than men or books; and to my knowledge seem / A key of Poetry, made of magic lore / Of childhood, opening many a fabled door / Of superstition, mystery, and dream / Enchantment locked of yore.
For, when through dusking woods my pathway lies, / Often I feel old spells, as o'er me flits / The bat, like some black thought that, troubled, flies / Round some dark purpose; or before me cries / The owl that, like an evil conscience, sits / A shadowy voice and eyes.