Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"

Kozen’s couplet evokes Halloween as a night when the past feels momentarily present. “Shadows of a thousand years” suggests ancestral memory and old folk beliefs resurfacing—an imaginative return of what is normally hidden or forgotten. The “voices” in the trees personify nature as a carrier of tradition, implying that the atmosphere itself seems to announce the holiday. The rhyme and incantatory cadence mimic a whispered spell, reinforcing Halloween’s themes of liminality: the boundary between seen and unseen, present and past, ordinary life and the uncanny. The lines function less as narrative than as mood-setting, compressing history, superstition, and seasonal darkness into a brief, memorable refrain.