Whose Ghosts are laid beyond the Isthmus

Of Suez, all beneath the billows

Of the Red Sea, on sandy pillows.

The Ghosts with eyes of flame and saucer

Are now as obsolete as Chaucer;

No Ghosts now rattle chains, nor blue light

Emit, but "Spirit Lights"—a new light.

White-sheeted Ghosts have grown mere fables.

Instead of groaning, Ghosts rap tables:

With smells of sulphur ne'er assail us;