Versos English Madison Julius Cawein I

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There in the calamus he stands With frog-webbed feet and bat-winged hands; His glow-worm garb glints goblin-wise; And elfishly, and impishly, Above the gleam of owlet eyes, A death's-head cap of downy dyes Nods out at me, and beckons me.