THE PHANTOM
"UPSTAIRS in the large closet, child,
This side the blue room door,
Is an old Bible, bound in leather,
Standing upon the floor;
"Go with this taper, bring it me;
Carry it so, upon your arm;
It is the book on many a sea
Hath stilled the waves' alarm."
Late the hour, dark the night,
The house is solitary;
Feeble is a taper's light
To light poor Ann to see.
Her eyes are yet with visions bright
Of sylph and river, flower and fay,
Now through a narrow corridor
She goes her lonely way.
Vast shadows on the heedless walls
Gigantic loom, stoop low:
Each little hasty footfall calls
Hollowly to and fro.
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