"O cold and lonely is the night,

Madly the fierce winds rave;

How should I sleep?—The shroud is wet

That wraps me in the grave."

She sign'd the cross upon her brow,

The cross upon her breast,

With:—"Avoid thee, ghost, and aroint thee,

ghost,

And get thee to thy rest."

'Twas midnight, brightly glow'd the hearth,