I went to bed hungry, and God! how I dreamed--- Running over hill and dale on four mighty paws, Hungry and dreadful my voice as I bayed and howled! A flock of sheep lay before me, In a moonlit meadow of grass and sweet clover And high-spraying blood that shone black on the ground As I killed and killed and killed! Glutted, I loped over the reeking red hill And slunk into a darkling wood to slumber... Retching, I woke with wool in my mouth And a well-gnawed sheep's head for a pillow--- Merciful God, not again...