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The House Of Fear.

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Vast are its halls, as vast the halls and lone     Where DEATH stalks listening to the wind and rain;     And dark that house, where I shall meet again     My long-dead Sin in some dread way unknown;     For I have dreamed of stairs of haunted stone,     And spectre footsteps I have fled in vain;     And windows glaring with a blood-red stain,     And horrible eyes, that burn me to the bone,     Within a face that looks as that black night     It looked when deep I dug for it a grave, -     The dagger wound above the brow, the thin     Blood trickling down slantwise the ghastly white; -     And I have dreamed not even GOD can save     Me and my soul from that risen Sin.

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