As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.

The couplet evokes a familiar Gothic/Halloween atmosphere: nightfall is imagined as a temporary loosening of boundaries between the living world and the spirit world. “Neighborhoods” domesticates the supernatural, suggesting that haunting is not confined to remote castles or graveyards but can brush up against ordinary, everyday spaces. The phrase “Let loose upon the Earth till it be light” frames daylight as a restoring force—an implicit moral or cosmic order that reasserts itself at dawn. Read this way, the lines dramatize the nightly cycle of fear and release: darkness licenses the uncanny, while morning returns safety and clarity.