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Scene A forsaken graveyard by moonlight Enter two witches	A
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First Witch	B
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Sit sister now that haggish Hecate	C
Appropriate and ghastly favor sheds	D
And with will light forwards our enterprise	E
And watch the weighted eyelids of each grave	F
As never mother watched her babe to mark	G
At zenith of the necromantic moon	H
The stir of that disquiet when the dead	C
From suckling nightmares of the charnel dark	G
Or long insomnia on a mouldy couch	I
Impelled like wan somnambulists arise	E
Constrained to emerge and walk or seated each	J
On his own tombstone shrouded council hold	C
Or commerce with the sooty wings of hell	K
All omens of this influential hour	L
When all dark powers thronging to the dark	G
Promote enchantment with their wav d wings	M
And brim the wind with potency malign	N
A dew of dread to aid our cauldron these	O
Observe thou closely while I seek afield	C
All requisite swart herbs of venefice	O
And evil roots unto our usance ripe	P
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The first witch departs leaving the other	L
among the tombs and returns after a time	Q
in the course of her search	R
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First Witch	B
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Sister what seest or what hearest thou	S
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Second Witch	B
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I see	O
The moonlight and the slowly moving gleam	T
That westers hour by hour on tomb and stone	U
And shrivelled lilies tossed i' the winter's breath	V
With their attenuate shadows as might dance	O
Phantom with flaffing phantom at my side	C
The white and shuddering grasses of the grave	F
With nettles and the parching fumitory	L
Whose leaves root trellised on the bones of death	V
Will rasp and bristle to the lightest wind	C
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The first witch moves on and approaches again after an interval	W
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First Witch	B
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Sister what seest or what hearest thou	S
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Second Witch	B
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I see	O
The mound stretched gossamers cradles to the dew	C
Moon wefted briers and the cypress trees	O
With shadow swathed or cerements of the moon	H
And corpse lights borne from aisle to secret aisle	X
Within the footless forest	C
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Now I hear	L
The lich owl shrieking lethal prophecy	O
And whimpering winds the children of the air	L
Lost in the glades of mystery and gloom	Y
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The first witch disappears and passes again shortly	O
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First Witch	B
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Sister what seest or what hearest thou	S
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Second Witch	B
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I see	O
The ghost white owl with huge sulphureous eyes	O
That veers in prone unwhispered flight and hear	L
The small shriek of the moon adventuring mole	Z
Griped in mid graveyard And I see	O
Where some wild shadow shakes though the pale wind	C
Of midnight stirs far off and hear	L
Curst mandragores that gibber to the moon	H
Though no man treads anigh	F
After an interval	W
Some predal hand doth halt the wandering air	L
Now dies the throttled wind with rattling breath	V
And round about a breathing Silence prowls	O
After another interval	W
I hear the cheeping of the bat lipped ghouls	O
Aroused beneath the vaulted cypresses	O
Far off and lipless muttering of tombs	O
With clash of bones bestirred in ancient charnels	O
Beneath their shroud of unclean light that crawls	O
Earth shudders and rank odours 'gin to rise	O
From tombs a crack and shaken out all at once	O
From mid air and directly 'neath the moon	H
Meseems what hanging wing divides the light	C
Like a black film of mist or thickest shadow	C
But on the tombs there is no shadow	C
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First Witch	B
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Enough 'twill be a prosperous night methinks	O
For commerce of the demons with the dead	C
And for us too when every omen's good	C
And fraight with promise of a potent brew	C

Clark Ashton Smith

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