Halloween Countdown 2019, Day 13

(”Wander” by CapnDusty.)

From “Ode to Terror” (1792) by Stephen Hole:

Illusions fly! the peaceful power

Of silence reigns o’er hills, o’er dale, and bower:

An awful stillness that my soul affrights -

For now on yon drear heath,

Hags profane, and hell-born sprites,

Plan schemes of future woe, and scenes of death.

Muttering slowly spells profound,

In mystic circle round and round

The necromantic fire they go,

Kindled from the flames below.

Now dusky flames ascend the skies,

As ‘mid the blaze they charms unhallow’d throw.