A creature climbs out of the hold
His features cause fraus to grow cold
To the deckhands' surprise,
This old wreck never dies
A leech that's a thousand years old.
Max Schreck as Count Orlok in Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (F. W. Murnau; 1922).
Title by ancient rhymer David Cairns.
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