Myra's Well: A Tale of All-Hallow-E'en

by George Francis Dawson

MYRA'S WELL.
A TALE
OF
ALL-HALLOW-E'EN,

BY

GEORGE FRANCIS DAWSON.

WASHINGTON:

GIBSON BROS., PRINTERS

1883.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883,
By George Francis Dawson,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.

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It is the night of all nights of the year,
When ghosts and warlocks haunt the troubled earth,
And disembodied spirits visit us—
Spirits of good and evil from the dead,
Fresh from the angel hosts and from the damned,
And from the vast profound betwixt the two;
Spirits from living bodies, disenthralled
By blesséd sleep, or yearnings most intense,
Or by more subtle agencies beyond our ken—
Bearing portentious messages to those
Who in full faith the future would behold.