Its dim interior, each eye a spark

Of sunset, creviced, within the room—

While a moist, chill, moldering, dead perfume

Of crumbling timbers and rotting grain,

On floors all warped with the sun and rain,

Made of the stagnant air a cell,

Round the cobwebbed rafters hung like a spell;

Making my mind, despite me, run

On thoughts of a hidden skeleton,

There in the walls; or, dripping dank,