There’s a spectral Thing to be heard and seen.

O, the Family Ghost!

O, the Family Ghost!

A sound, as it were, of a rustling train,

That sweeps into the chambers, and out again,

And anon there appeareth an ancient Dame,

Like a figure stept out of a picture-frame,

In a stomacher, frill, and farthingale,

And her eyes glimmer through an antique lace-veil.

O, the Family Ghost!