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While the old man slumbers,

A shimmer in the dark is cast upon the bed

In a sickening desire, infatuated longing

To witness the vulture’s eye in the light’s shed

Oh, but never the eye is opened

Biding his time, night after night

Watching sweet ignorance, vanity rising

Feelings of triumph and might

Conceited chuckles disturb the silence

The innocent man awakes from repose

In mortal terror he shivers

An unseen shadow of death lingering close

«Who's there?», the old man cries

But no answer returns

Then, a dim ray of light pierces through the darkness

Shining right upon the damned eye,

for which the madman so yearns

Oh, the beating of his heart increases

Rising and rising, beats in the night

He who’s been waiting

Can’t take it no longer

Feelings of terror and fright

One shriek in the night,

And it’s all over…

Stone dead body,

Breathing nevermore

Cutting up the corpse in pieces

Placing them carefully under the floor

Man of justice, alarmed by the shriek

Are brought to the chamber of the deed

But do not find what they seek

Then the madman starts to hear

A sound like the old man’s heartbeat

Foaming and raging, he screams:

Villains, I admit the deed!

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