Each bulb about me blooms

Gives its own luminescence

Like some phantom lantern glare

There is nothing in this place but rainfall

Forlorn, dreary secret ghosts

That hide between the twilit trees

Doth gaze upon the spores that gleam

They only know the floral dream



By the shade of wither'd day

How the moonbeams dance and waver

Splendid through the pallid air

The poison mists doth flow and gather

Burst from ev'ry season'd flow'ret

Like mimosas of the night

Fleeth garden charms that sparkle

Like a shattered lantern's light



I breathe the vapours that surround

Like so many seedling faeries

Rose, and thistle

And berry red

That preside over the dead

Tell me what they've seen and said:



"Breathe no more

Thy ghost dost wait

To take thy place

At Garden's Gate

Poison, venom,

Toxic fume hast ensured

Thy witless doom!"