WF W245 .C97 1930
The Cypress-Bog
First published in Weird Tales, November 1930 (vol. 16, no. 5). Poem.
United States public domain. Held in the Reading Room of The Weird Library. Published by Weird Tales.
Lethal waters sleep and swoon
By a cypress-veiled lagoon,
Flickering flames and fire-flies
Burn beneath the stagnant skies,
Lighting swamps and tarns unholy
Where miasmal stenches slowly
Rise from half-decaying logs
And the miles of rotten bogs.
Sucking sounds invade the night,
Air and water creatures fight,
Shrieking, thus to settle whose
That dead body in the ooze.
Footprints of a man-bat woven
With the fresher tracks of cloven
Feet are ended in a fen—
Neither thing will walk again.