Halloween

Halloween
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Ah, Hallowe’en’s the dandy night!
Yet woe to the unwary,
For in the dark one’s apt to meet
A Jack-o’-Lantern scarey

This Hallowe’en, the Bunnies said,
“Tonight we’ll have some fun
We’ll make a Jack-o’-Lantern and
We’ll see the Squirrels run

But, strange to say, the Squirrels had
In mind that very day
To make a gruesome thing and watch
The Bunnies run away

“Upon the hill we’ll meet tonight,”
Each said, though neither knew
Just how the other laughed at this
And what each had in view

All day the Bunnies worked and worked:-
The Squirrels toiled with vim;
And just at sunset each side had
A Jack-o’-Lantern grim

A Pumpkin and a Gourd they’d used
To make those things that day,
Though which one was the more grotesque
I really could not say

At dark upon the hill they sneaked
(They all were so unwary),
And when each side peeped oer the crest
They saw a lantern scarey

Dear me! How they did scream and jump!
Each taken by surprise
That surely was a horrid ghost
They saw before their eyes I

They did not stop to wonder why;
They ran back to their beds,
And, closing tight their eyes, they drew
The blankets o’er their heads,

And to the Lanterns on the hill
The Moon did smiling say,
“‘Tis nothing but a sorry joke
That works a single way”
JJ Mora