In spite of ghosts, predestined woes would come,
And warning add new terrors to our doom.
“Yet there are tales that would remove our doubt—
The whisper’d tales that circulate about;
That in some noble mansion take their rise, 70
And told with secresy and awe, surprise.
It seems not likely people should advance,
For falsehood’s sake, such train of circumstance;
Then the ghosts bear them with a ghost-like grace,
That suits the person, character, and place.