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by Unknown

Loud neighs the steed from out the stall:

What [♦]form is gliding near?

No latch is raised, no step is heard,

But a phantom fills the space—

A sheeted spectre from the dead,

With cold and leaden face!

What boots it that no other eye

Beheld the shade appear?

The guilty lady’s guilty soul

Beheld it plain and clear!