Judy.

THE GOBLIN GOOSE

ONCE it happened I'd been dining, on my couch I slept reclining,

And awoke with moonlight shining brightly on my bedroom floor,

It was in the bleak December, Christmas night as I remember,

But I had no dying ember, as Poe had, when near the door,

Like a gastronomic goblin just beside my chamber door

Stood a bird,—and nothing more.

And I said, for I'm no craven, "Are you Edgar's famous raven,

Seeking as with him a haven—were you mixed up with Lenore?"