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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 31, Pages 269-270


THE HAUNTED HOUSE.

I seem like one
Who treads alone
    Some banquet-hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garlands dead,
    And all but he, departed.
Moore.

Seest thou yon grey gleaming hall,
Where the deep elm-shadows fall!
Voices that have left the earth
    Long ago,
Still are murmuring round its hearth,
    Soft and low:
Ever there:—yet one alone
Hath the gift to hear their tone.