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Yet still to choose a brat like you,
To haunt a man of forty-two,
Was no great compliment!"
Phantasmagoria (1869)
And as to being in a fright,
Allow me to remark
That Ghosts have just as good a right
In every way, to fear the light,
As Men to fear the dark.
Phantasmagoria (1869)
He is immensely fat, and so
Well suits the occupation:
In point of fact, if you must know,
We used to call him years ago,
THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION!
Phantasmagoria (1869)
Oh, when I was a little Ghost,
A merry time had we!
Each seated on his favourite post,
We chumped and chawed the buttered toast
They gave us for our tea.
Phantasmagoria (1869)
Now that's a thing I WILL NOT STAND,
And so I tell you flat.
Phantasmagoria (1869)
One winter night, at half past nine,
Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,
I had come home, too late to dine
Phantasmagoria (1869)
Port-wine, he says, when rich and sound,
Warms his old bones like nectar:
And as the inns, where it is found,
Are his especial hunting-ground,
We call him the INN-SPECTRE.
Phantasmagoria (1869)
"That narrow window, I expect,
Serves but to let the dusk in - "
"But please," said I, "to recollect
'Twas fashioned by an architect
Who pinned his faith on Ruskin!"
Phantasmagoria (1869)
"I've caught a cold," the Thing replies,
"Out there upon the landing."
I turned to look in some surprise,
And there, before my very eyes,
A little Ghost was standing!
Phantasmagoria (1869)
So, to reward him for his run
(As it was baking hot,
And he was over twenty stone),
The King proceeded, half in fun,
To knight him on the spot.
Phantasmagoria (1869)