From visions ill to bear.

The very curtain shook,

Her terror was so extreme;

And the light that fell on the broider'd quilt

Kept a tremulous gleam;

And her voice was hollow, and shook as she cried:—

"Oh me! that awful dream"!

"That weary, weary walk,

In the churchyard's dismal ground!

And those horrible things, with shady wings,