Madness

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            Hath thou seen Queen Mab to-day?

in that bitter carriage, with her dreams

            Forwarding to the cursèd fray

with unhallowed thoughts, or so ’twould seem

            And creeping under willow’s bough

’pon rotting leaves and sick’ning scents

            Of fretting unborn babes and now

she peddles with a marred intent

            With foreign faeries in the leaves

who show broken wares and scattered souls

            They hide amongst the dripping reeds

while dying rays reflect on shoals

            And here, on the last hour of light

mab cursed the world into the night.

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