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Robert Graves - Outlaws
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Owls: they whinney down the night,
  Bats go zigzag by.
Ambushed in shadow out of sight
  The outlaws lie.

Old gods, shrunk to shadows, there
  In the wet woods they lurk,
Greedy of human stuff to snare
  In webs of murk.

Look up, else your eye must drown
  In a moving sea of black
Between the tree-tops, upside down
  Goes the sky-track.

Look up, else your feet will stray
  Towards that dim ambuscade,
Where spider-like they catch their prey
  In nets of shade.

For though creeds whirl away in dust,
  Faith fails and men forget,
These aged gods of fright and lust
  Cling to life yet.

Old gods almost dead, malign,
  Starved of their ancient dues,
Incense and fruit, fire, blood and wine
  And an unclean muse.

Banished to woods and a sickly moon,
  Shrunk to mere bogey things,
Who spoke with thunder once at noon
  To prostrate kings.

With thunder from an open sky
  To peasant, tyrant, priest,
Bowing in fear with a dazzled eye
  Towards the East.

Proud gods, humbled, sunk so low,
  Living with ghosts and ghouls,
And ghosts of ghosts and last year`s snow
  And dead toadstools.
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