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Title: Myra's Well
A Tale of All-Hallow-E'en
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MYRA'S WELL.
A TALE
OF
ALL-HALLOW-E'EN,
BY
GEORGE FRANCIS DAWSON.
WASHINGTON:
GIBSON BROS., PRINTERS
1883.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883,
By George Francis Dawson
,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.
It is the night of all nights of the year,
When ghosts and warlocks haunt the troubled earth,
And disembodied spirits visit us—
Spirits of good and evil from the dead,
Fresh from the angel hosts and from the damned,
And from the vast profound betwixt the two;
Spirits from living bodies, disenthralled
By blesséd sleep, or yearnings most intense,
Or by more subtle agencies beyond our ken—
Bearing portentious messages to those
Who in full faith the future would behold.
The clear-cut radiance of a frosty moon
Lights up, and darkens, all the growth around.
The great trees stand out black against the stars.
The wind in gusts bestirs the Autumn leaves,
Whose late October tints are lost in gloom,
Or are grown pallid with their shivering;
Whose fitful rustlings are the only sounds
Which break the dead cold silence of the night.
Yet hist! faint eerie tones are sometimes heard—
Which blanch the cheek and palsy all the limbs—
Like to the moaning of departed souls!
Within the farm-house is a large high room
Unceiled, but studded thick with rafters old,
Grown black with age or smoke; around its walls
Stiff hams and bacon-flitches dimly seen;
And here
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