Zaman’s Hill

[Intro] The great hill hung close over the old town, A precipice against the main street’s end; Green, tall, and wooded, looking darkly down Upon the steeple at the highway bend. Two hundred years the whispers had been heard About what happened on the man-shunned slope— Tales of an oddly mangled deer or bird, Or of lost boys whose kin had ceased to hope. One day the mail-man found no village there, Nor were its folk or houses seen again; People came out from Aylesbury to stare— Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain That he was mad for saying he had spied The great hill’s gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide. [Outro} [Intro] The great hill hung close over the old town, A precipice against the main street’s end; Green, tall, and wooded, looking darkly down Upon the steeple at the highway bend. Two hundred years the whispers had been heard About what happened on the man-shunned slope— Tales of an oddly mangled deer or bird, Or of lost boys whose kin had ceased to hope. One day the mail-man found no village there, Nor were its folk or houses seen again; People came out from Aylesbury to stare— Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain That he was mad for saying he had spied The great hill’s gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide. [Outro} Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain That he was mad for saying he had spied The great hill’s gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide. [Outro}