I’ve had such sights as may not be express’d.

Lo! that chateau, the western tower decay’d,

The peasants shun it, - they are all afraid;

For there was done a deed! - could walls reveal,

Or timbers tell it, how the heart would feel!

Most horrid was it: - for, behold, the floor

Has stain of blood, and will be clean no more:

Hark to the winds! which through the wide saloon

And the long passage send a dismal tune, -

Music that ghosts delight in; and now heed