Circus Of The Dead

Near the centre of our town

There lies a large allotment ground

Where locals say, in bygone days,

A circus spent their winter lays.

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One day a fearful plague arose

That felled all beasts in deathly throes

Elephant and performing bear

No creature did the good Lord spare.

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And soon the humans, they succumbed

Their bodies found there - cold and numbed

The locals feared they might be hit

So buried all in one large pit.

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In time the circus memory passes

The land went fallow, turned to grasses

The young just mocked when told the story

And passed it off as old and hoary.

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But on some moonless winter nights

Some have seen these ghostly sights:

They hear a hurdy gurdy sound

As man and beast rise from the ground.

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The wraiths begin their circus show

In eerie iridescent glow

All hollow-eyed with ghastly frown

The circus has returned to town!