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hing like this: Sir Aglovaile through the churchyard rode; SING, ALL ALONE I LIE: Little recked he where'er he yode, ALL ALONE, UP IN THE SKY. Swerved his courser, and plunged with fear ALL ALONE I LIE: His cry might have wakened the dead men near, ALL ALONE, UP IN THE SKY. The very dead that lay at his feet, Lapt in the mouldy winding-sheet. But he curbed him and spurred him, until he stood Still in his place, like a horse of wood, With nostrils uplift, and eyes wide and wan; But the sweat in streams from his fetlocks ran. A ghost grew out of the shadowy air, And sat in the midst of her moony hair. In her gleamy hair she sat and wept; In the dreamful moon they lay and slept; The shadows above, and the bodies below, Lay and slept in the moonbeams slow. And she sang, like the moan of an autumn wind Over the stubble left behind: Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, or a kiss too long, And there follows a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again. Alas, how hardly things go right! 'Tis hard to watch on a summer night, For the sigh will come and the kiss will stay, And the summer night is a winter day. "Oh, lovely ghosts my heart is woes To see thee weeping and wailing so. Oh, lovely ghost," said the fearless knight, "Can the sword of a warrior set it right? Or prayer of bedesman, praying mild, As a cup of water a feverish child, Sooth thee at last, in dreamless mood To sleep the sleep a dead lady should? Thine eyes they fill me with longing sore, As if I had known thee for evermore. Oh, lovely ghost, I could leave the day To sit with thee in the moon away If thou wouldst trust me, and lay thy head To rest on a bosom that is not dead." The lady sprang up with a strange ghost-cry, And she flung her white ghost-arms on high: An
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