Look out! Look out, boys! Clear the track!
The witches are here! They’ve all come back!
They hanged them high,—No use! No use!
What cares a witch for a hangman’s noose?
They buried them deep, but they wouldn’t lie still,
For cats and witches are hard to kill;
They swore they shouldn’t and wouldn’t die,—
Books said they did, but they lie! they lie!
Illustrations from Oliver Wendell Holmes’ “The Broomstick Train; Or, The Return Of The Witches” drawn by Howard Pyle, 1908.