<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Ghoul Care</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">SOUR fiend, go home and tell the Pit</p><p class="line">For once you met your master,--</p><p class="line">A man who carried in his soul</p><p class="line">Three charms against disaster,</p><p class="line">The Devil and disaster.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Away, away, and tell the tale</p><p class="line">And start your whelps a-whining,</p><p class="line">Say "In the greenwood of his soul</p><p class="line">A lizard's eye was shining,</p><p class="line">A little eye kept shining."</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Away, away, and salve your sores,</p><p class="line">And set your hags a-groaning,</p><p class="line">Say "In the greenwood of his soul</p><p class="line">A drowsy bee was droning,</p><p class="line">A dreamy bee was droning."</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Prodigious Bat! Go start the walls</p><p class="line">Of Hell with horror ringing,</p><p class="line">Say " In the greenwood of his soul</p><p class="line">There was a goldfinch singing,</p><p class="line">A pretty goldfinch singing."</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And then come back, come, if you please,</p><p class="line">A fiercer ghoul and ghaster,</p><p class="line">With all the glooms and smuts of</p><p class="line">Hell</p><p class="line">Behind you, I'm your master!</p><p class="line">You know I'm still your master.</p></div></body></html> · Great War