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"But there were dreams to sell Ill didst thou buy: Life is a dream, they tell, Waking to die. Dreaming a dream to prize, Is wishing ghosts to rise; And, if I had the spell To call the buried -- well, Which one would I? "
As has been said, Kennaston read much curious matter in his dead uncle's library.