Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-02-07

were weary:
Or by drowsy tickle taper
Throwing out dubious light,
COINED he DER his weekly paper,
In the silence of the night.
Drear without The winds were signing out the wall of
Autumn dying,
Fast and thick the coming, in the dreary
distant cleaning
Hyperborean frosts were weaving
Over all the window pane,
Curious figures that. were leaving
Grotesque pictures on the brain.
But beside the waning taper coming DER his weekly
Reck'd he little how without him winds might caper
all about him;
In the Goals he thrust the poker
Starting up anew the flame,
Then read another "taIe" or '.ioke'' or
Article without name.
But adown the column plodding, soon again he took
TO nodding.
And the light with feeble gimmer, fast was waning
dim and DINNER,
And again the shadows Pickering
Danced about the darkened room
Till they seemed knocking, bickeung
At the sleeper in the gloom.
Soon upon the door rappng, like some midnight
spectre tapping,
Or the guest whose ready sickle reaps us down like
stubble fckle
Broke upon that midnight dreamer,
AS he sat in his unrest
And the light feasEl glimmer
Cast upon the midnight guest
Gliding in with footsteps noseIess saying nothing
if vOceless,
Moving slow and stately nearer while the room grew
dreaT and drearer, e.s
He approached the inmate sleeping.
Sleeping there upon his chair
While cold chills were DER him creeping
And with fear uprose his hair.
Never vsiter was ruder than this spectral night-in
truder,
In the room ghost-like stalking like some troubled
spirit walking;
And the sleeper's brow grew pallid,
AS the whitest marble stone
And from restless sleep he rallied
As he looked the spectre on
Spectre in the midnight walking, and unbidden on
me stalking,
Why me thy cold glance bendest why the frowu
thy v;sage lendest? 7"
Thus the host Intercepted
While his cheek was white with fear
And the spectre he befated,
Gded near and still more near.
In his hand he held paper held it 10 the scky taper
In his fingers long and bony, and his gaze was fixed
and stony.
Twas bill yet unreceipted,
From the sleeper long time due
That his fearful gaze had greeted
And the spectre nearer drew.
Twas the bill for that same paper, he'd been reading
by the taper,
And for all the years he'd had it, not for any had he
paid it.
There before him was the total
Sum put down upon the bill
And the dreamer forced to note all
Gazed sore against his will.
And the spectre still gazing with ghostly look
amazn g
In that silent look and fixed sorrow was with anoe,
mixed.
But the watchful cock was Growing
And the daylight met the floor,
| And with morn the spectre going
Spoke the sentence" Sleep no more m
Then sudden fash did brighten, that the dreamer's
fear did heghten-
Flashed brightly that it made him think the evil
| spirit had him.
| But il was his weekly paper,
| Falling on the taper lower
Falling on his Pickering taper,
| "Only this and nothing more"
And the sleeper amazed, stood erect and round
| him gazed,
In the east the breaking and the farm. yard
| clarion waking,
| Diamonds glittered on the branches,
| Fross floating on the air,
! And DER all the distant ranches
! Snow was heaped every where.
But that fearful midnight quaking haunted still hi
| hours Of waking,
And that bill all unreceipted every where his vision
greeted.
When the day again had closed.
| And had shut his bed room door,
| Not in sleep was he composed POI
For the sentence" Sleep no more /"
And for fear that spectre stalking come again at mid
| night walking,
And in hope his eye be greeted with the paper bill re
/ ceipted,
i That the dtendfu spectre's sentence
! May no longer his midnigh vcx
| Please accept his deep repentance,
| And enclosed find an X
Yours in hope, JOHN SMITH, 99th.
| Ladies who find great inconvenience IN getting the
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