For a spell

That silence clung; and then the old man: “Well,

Is this the sort of welcome that I get?

‘Twas not my time to feed the kiotes yet!

Put on the pot and stew a chunk of meat

And you shall see how much a ghost can eat!

I’ve journeyed far if what I hear be true!”

Now in that none might doubt the voice of Hugh,

Nor yet the face, however it might seem

A blurred reflection in a flowing stream,