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Where was I last Friday night?-- Within the Forest of dark Dreams Following the blur of a goblin light, That led me over dreadful streams, Whereon the scum of the spawn was spread, And the blistered slime, in stagnant seams; Where the weed and the moss swam black and dead, Like a drowned girl's hair, in the ropy ooze: And the jack-o'-lantern light that led Flickered the foxfire trees o'erhead, And the owl-like things at airy cruise.