'He never intended to kill you, Jack—

O Jack, I hope you don't mind being dead!'

Strive as we will, fate can calmly defeat—

What is to be, happens—and always will;

Harry awoke, and stood up on his feet,

And my heart leapt madly and then stood still.

I trembled for Harry, all unprepar'd!

I stood between the Alive and the Dead!

The man and the ghost at each other star'd—

And the man got white, and the ghost got red.