Versos English Benjamin De Casseres The Dead Who Live

English poem

The Dead Who Live

by (1873–1945)

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Up from the nether world in unending procession, Like the lurid mists at the dawn-time, Like the black wraiths that ascend from foul crypts, Arise and ever arise my impulses. Across the field of consciousness they stalk, anhungered, lust-ravened, lean of their ghastly dreams-- Thou devils of the gone-by!