Let through the horrors. Oh, could he recall

The deep sleep and the dreams that used to fall

Around him for the asking. But, somehow,

Something’s amiss ... sleep comes so rarely now.

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Then, like the dog returning to its vomit,

He staggered to the bookcase to renew

Yet once again the taint he had taken from it,

And shuddered as he went. But horror drew

His feet, as joy draws others. There in view