no moat, to promise
this, to keep a well
a trench, a coat
brick-laid & moss’d,
the guest a thirst,
as a prominence
exclude a new sun
to soothen candlelight,
no less as descend
defil’d & barr’d
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ayaladn 
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Perhaps, the thought itself, wayward,
tending to a vampiric energy; probably
dear Otto, creeping around down there.
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you are describing a subject, not a verb
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Defiled: ok, so the silly guest said, ‘Can I bring some friends?’,
and he did; they all had too many wines…and the staid host’s
sense of propriety was sullied by the ensuing food fight, as well
as the cooks’. Furthermore, they led them out, down the narrowest,
not the grand, staircase and bolted the back door. The maids were
terribly upset, sick themselves at the thought of washing so many
stairs. The cooks returned to the kitchen, to eat cake. One chipped
a tooth, but, too polite, did not say the ‘D’ word.
No-one could find the host, but a window was open in the dining room,
and one pale maid thought she heard distant screams from the dark woods.
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