I shall not soon forget her and her eyes,

The haunts of hate, where suffering seemed to write

Its stealthy name, whose syllables are sighs,

In strange and starless night.

I shall not soon forget her and her face,

So quiet, yet uneasy as a dream

That stands on tip-toe in a haunted place

And listens for a scream.

She made me feel as one, alone, may feel

In some grand, ghostly mansion of old time,