The Halloween Ride of Maggie O'Lear
Listen, my readers, and you shall hear
Of the Halloween ride of Maggie O’Lear,
On the 31st of October in twenty nineteen;
Hardly a sign can still be seen
Of that autumn trip of the wicked seer.
On a dark night, to Olde Town she came
To foretell such deeds that filled all with fright
Death and destruction and more of the same.
She foretold disaster before dawn brought light.
One death or two, a dozen times four,
She screeched and she hollered and threatened some more,
Listen, my readers, and you shall hear
Of the Halloween ride of Maggie O’Lear,
On the 31st of October in twenty nineteen;
Hardly a sign can still be seen
Of that autumn trip of the wicked seer.
On a dark night, to Olde Town she came
To foretell such deeds that filled all with fright
Death and destruction and more of the same.
She foretold disaster before dawn brought light.
One death or two, a dozen times four,
She screeched and she hollered and threatened some more,
Then Ari, Andreas, Rayne and Nicholas too
Called magic to bathe her in sticky blue goo,
She’s gone now, so sorry, with a final boo hoo.
Ally Shields 2019 (With my sincere apologies to William Wadsworth Longfellow for this spoof on the opening lines of Paul Revere's Ride)
Called magic to bathe her in sticky blue goo,
She’s gone now, so sorry, with a final boo hoo.
Ally Shields 2019 (With my sincere apologies to William Wadsworth Longfellow for this spoof on the opening lines of Paul Revere's Ride)
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