A landlord ghost! Aye, one who knows

His lease out-lived with the cock that crows,

A wraith content that contented goes.

Goes at the cry of the bird unseen,

Calling the friends of what has been;

And some it names lie sleeping near—

Ah, wake them not, friend Chanticleer!

XVI

Three times it calls the end of the dream,

And still I return, for still I seem