- 25 (Fungi from Yuggoth by Howard Phillips Lovecraft)
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XXV. St. Toads
Beware St. Toads cracked chimes! I heard him scream
As I plunged into those mad lanes that wind
In labyrinths obscure and undefined
South of the river where old centuries dream.
He was a furtive figure, bent and ragged,
And in a flash had staggered out of sight,
So still I burrowed onward in the night
Toward where more roof-lines rose, malign and jagged.
No guide-book told of what was lurking here
But now I heard another old man shriek:
Beware St. Toads cracked chimes! And growing weak,
I paused, when a third greybeard croaked in fear:
Beware St. Toads cracked chimes! Aghast, I fled
Till suddenly that black spire loomed ahead.
