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 For spirits when they please
 Can either sex assume, or both.  
 For spirits when they please
 Can either sex assume, or both. 
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she.
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she.
 So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
 Have started from their graves to-night,
  They have driven sleep read more 
 So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
 Have started from their graves to-night,
  They have driven sleep from mine eyes away;
   I will go down to the chapel and pray. 
 What are these,
 So withered and so wild in their attire
  That took not like th' inhabitants read more 
 What are these,
 So withered and so wild in their attire
  That took not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth
   And yet are on't? 
 A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
 In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
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 A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
 In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
  A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
   The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead
    Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;
     As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
      Disasters in the sun; and the moist star
       Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands
        Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. 
 My people too were scared with eerie sounds,
 A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls.
  A read more 
 My people too were scared with eerie sounds,
 A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls.
  A noise of falling weights that never fell,
   Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand,
    Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door,
     And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;
      And one betwixt the dark and light had seen
       Her, bending by the cradle of her babe. 
 I look for ghosts; but none will force
 Their way to me; 'tis falsely said
  That even read more 
 I look for ghosts; but none will force
 Their way to me; 'tis falsely said
  That even there was intercourse
   Between the living and the dead. 
 Why, so can I, or so can any man;
 But will they come when you do call for them?  
 Why, so can I, or so can any man;
 But will they come when you do call for them? 
 All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear,
 All intellect, all sense, and as they please
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 All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear,
 All intellect, all sense, and as they please
  They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size,
   Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.