The Ghost.

“Would’st thou from my own circle me coerce?”

Spake the deep voice of hollowest refrain.

“It is to me that hosts of heroes yield;

I glance but on the people from the height,

They are dispersed like ashes ’neath my gaze.

Out of my breath proceeds the blast of death.

I journey loftily upon the wind;

And tempests hurry forth themselves on high

Around my brow, cold, melancholy, pale;