Speaking of my university days and The Hound of the Baskervilles, here's something else that comes from that time.


Baskerville

This is my home.

It is natural that I should know

Each sinking bog, each safe foothold,

Among the beauty and the death.

I am no bastard, no outcast,

No second-hand goods,

Title and hall and curse and hound

All mine by right.

This American, who is he

To take what is mine?

And who was the old man

To steal my inheritance?

Perhaps it is Hugo's blood,

Hugo's damnation in me,

Which calls hound

From shadowy existence.

When I see it, jaws dripping

With blood and spit and bone,

I could almost believe

The devil is real.

Am I his agent? Irrelevant.

This is my home and I will reclaim it,

Neither detective nor doctor

Nor American nor hound nor even wife

Able to oppose me here.