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Haunted Houses · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Haunted houses. All houses wherein men have lived and died
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  Speaker 1: are haunted houses. Through the open doors, the harmless phantoms
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  Speaker 1: on their errands glide with feet that make no sound
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  Speaker 1: upon the floors. We meet them at the doorway, on
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  Speaker 1: the stair. Along the passages they come and go, impalpable
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  Speaker 1: impressions on the air, a sense of something moving to
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  Speaker 1: and fro. There are more guests at table than the
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  Speaker 1: hosts invited. The illuminated hall is thronged with quiet, inoffensive ghosts,
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  Speaker 1: as silent as the pictures on the wall. The stranger
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  Speaker 1: at my fireside cannot see the forms I see, nor
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  Speaker 1: hear the sounds I hear. He but perceives what is
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  Speaker 1: while unto me all that has bin is visible and clear.
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  Speaker 1: We have no tidle deeds to house or lands. Owners
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  Speaker 1: and occupants of earlier dates, from graves forgotten, stretch their
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  Speaker 1: dusty hands and hold in mortmains still their old estates.
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  Speaker 1: The spirit world around, this world of sense, floats like
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  Speaker 1: an atmosphere, and everywhere wafts through these earthly mists and
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  Speaker 1: vapors dense a vital breath of more ethereal air. Our
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  Speaker 1: little lives are kept in equipoise by opposite attractions and desires,
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  Speaker 1: the struggle of the instinct that enjoys and the more
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  Speaker 1: noble instinct that aspires these perturbations, This perpetual jar of
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  Speaker 1: earthly wants and aspirations high come from the influence of
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  Speaker 1: an unseen star, an undiscs covered planet in our sky.
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  Speaker 1: And as the moon, from some dark gate of cloud
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  Speaker 1: throws over the sea, a floating bridge of light, across
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  Speaker 1: whose trembling planks our fancy's crowd into the realm of
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  Speaker 1: mystery and night. So from the world of spirits there
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  Speaker 1: descends a bridge of light, connecting it with this, over
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  Speaker 1: whose unsteady floor that sways and bends wander our thoughts
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  Speaker 1: above the dark abyss