Pixie kobold elf and sprite
All are on their rounds to-night
In the wan moon's silver ray
Thrives their helter-skelter play
Fond of cellar barn or stack
True unto the almanac
They present to credulous eyes
Strange hobgoblin mysteries
Pixie kobold elf and sprite
All are on their rounds to-night
In the wan moon's silver ray
Thrives their helter-skelter play
Fond of cellar barn or stack
True unto the almanac
They present to credulous eyes
Strange hobgoblin mysteries
Pixie kobold elf and sprite
All are on their rounds to-night
In the wan moon's silver ray
Thrives their helter-skelter play
Fond of cellar barn or stack
True unto the almanac
They present to credulous eyes
Strange hobgoblin mysteries
Pixie kobold elf and sprite
All are on their rounds to-night
In the wan moon's silver ray
Thrives their helter-skelter play
Cabbage-stumps-straws wet with dew-
Apple-skins and chestnuts too
And a mirror for some lass
Show what wonders come to pass
Doors they move and gates they hide
Mischiefs that on moonbeams ride
Are their deeds-and by their spells
Love records its oracles
Pixie kobold elf and sprite
All are on their rounds to-night
In the wan moon's silver ray
Thrives their helter-skelter play
Don't we all of long ago
By the ruddy fireplace glow
In the kitchen and the hall
Those queer coof-like pranks recall
Eery shadows were they then
But to-night they come again
Were we once more but sixteen
Precious would be Halloween
Pixie kobold elf and sprite
All are on their rounds to-night
In the wan moon's silver ray
Thrives their helter-skelter play
"Adapted from JK Bangs ' poem *A Halloween*"