The Vampire's Lament: Cantos XIII-XVIII

Narrative Verse

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The Vampire’s Lament: Cantos XIII-XVIII

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

XIII

In the dark they sat and watched
The brooding walls that were blotched
With vile fungus, stepped in fans,
And the cracks where vermin ran;
Emblems of departed Counts,
Fields of argent, charging mounts,
Fists of mail in anger clenched,
And the wor…