My ancestor, Sir Godfrey Beane.”

“Your ancestor! How can that be?”

Exclaimed the little ghost, “when he,

Last of his line, was drowned at sea

Two hundred years ago; this stone

Is to his memory alone.

I, and I only, saw his end.

As he, my master and my friend,

Leaned o’er the vessel’s side one night

I pushed him—no, it was not right,