It MUST BE Halloween, cause the TROLLS ARE INVADING

[berni_mccoy]

They must be hungry... had nutin-but-mutton for sooooo loooong... so they come here looking to stir things up.

[hfojvt]

1. I think Poe is scarier

Hear the sledges with the trolls-
Silver trolls!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the trolls, trolls, trolls, trolls,
trolls, trolls, trolls-
From the jingling and the tinkling of the trolls.

II
Hear the mellow wedding trolls,
Golden trolls!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they sing out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And an in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
On the moon!
Oh, from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
How it swells!
How it dwells
On the Future! how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the trolls, trolls, trolls,
Of the trolls, trolls, trolls,trolls,
trolls, trolls, trolls-
To the rhyming and the chiming of the trolls!

III
Hear the loud alarum trolls-
Brazen trolls!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor,
Now–now to sit or never,
By the side of the pale-faced moon.
Oh, the trolls, trolls, trolls!
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear it fully knows,
By the twanging,
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows:
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling,
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the trolls-
Of the trolls-
Of the trolls, trolls, trolls,trolls,
trolls, trolls, trolls-
In the clamor and the clangor of the trolls!

IV
Hear the tolling of the trolls-
Iron trolls!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
And the people–ah, the people-
They that dwell up in the steeple,
All Alone
And who, tolling, tolling, tolling,
In that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a stone-
They are neither man nor woman-
They are neither brute nor human-
They are Ghouls:
And their king it is who tolls;
And he rolls, rolls, rolls,
Rolls
A paean from the trolls!
And his merry bosom swells
With the paean of the bells!
And he dances, and he yells;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the paean of the trolls-
Of the trolls:
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the throbbing of the trolls-
Of the trolls, trolls, trolls-
To the sobbing of the trolls;
Keeping time, time, time,
As he knells, knells, knells,
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the trolls-
Of the trolls, trolls, trolls:
To the tolling of the trolls,
Of the trolls, trolls, trolls, trolls-
trolls, trolls, trolls-
To the moaning and the groaning of the trolls.

[zabet]

2. Yep, rude, crude and

socially unattractive, trolls.
Not nice trolls like these..

[Glorfindel]

3. Yep...I've noticed the same thing

May the light of day find them SOON and turn them to stone.

[LostinVA]

4. No -- it's just Mod Turnover Time

[Catherine Vincent]

5. LOL!

Sho you're right!

[me b zola]

6. Last night...

...I could have swore I saw the ghost of zandor.

[Individualist]

7. I saw it too!