The Haunted Hour - An Anthology by Various
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But I'll be yours in death, altho'
Sir Astley has my heart. "Don't go to weep upon my grave, And think that there I be; They haven't left an atom there Of my anatomie." THE SUPERSTITIOUS GHOST: ARTHUR GUITERMAN I'm such a quiet little ghost, Demure and inoffensive, The other spirits say I'm most Absurdly apprehensive. Through all the merry hours of night I'm uniformly cheerful; I love the dark; but in the light, I own I'm rather fearful. Each dawn I cower down in bed, In every brightness seeing That weird uncanny form of dread-- An awful Human Being! Of course I'm told they can't exist, That Nature would not let them: But Willy Spook, the Humanist, Declares that he has met them! |
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