Something Wicked This Way Comes (with EDIT)

[frogmarch]

Ray Bradbury borrowed the title of his dark fantasy novel Something Wicked This Way Comes from Shakespeare’s MacBeth (Scene 1, Act IV).

2nd witch:

By the twitching of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes
Open, locks
Whoever knocks

There’s a poem attributed to Ray Bradbury online by the same title:

Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury

By the pricking of my thumbs,
something wicked this way comes.
Then toll the bells both loud and deep,
God is not dead, nor doth he sleep.
The wrong will fail, the right prevail,
With peace on Earth, good will toward men.

Ill winds mark its fearsome flight,
and autumn branches creak with fright.
The landscape turns to ashen crumbs,
when something wicked this way comes.

Crystal water turns to dark,
where e'er its presence leaves its mark,
and boiling currents pound like drums,
when something wicked this way comes.

A presence dark invades the fair,
and gives the horses ample scare,
for chaos reigns and panic numbs,
when something wicked this way comes.

I re-read the Bradbury novel to see if I’d missed seeing the poem in it, but I didn’t see the poem this time either.

Verses of the poem can be found individually on You Tube in some old Lexus commercials. Here’s one:

The carnival scenes are a clear reference to Ray Bradbury’s book, but did Ray Bradbury write the poem, or did Lexus ad writers? (Not knowing is driving me crazy!)

EDIT: It's not listed in The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury:

http://www.spaceagecity.com/bradbury/completepoem.htm

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