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One need not be a chamber to be haunted, / One need not be a house; / The brain has corridors surpassing / Material place.
Far safer, of a midnight meeting / External ghost, / Than an interior confronting / That whiter host.
Far safer through an Abbey gallop, / The stones achase, / Than, moonless, one's own self encounter / In lonesome place.
Ourself, behind ourself concealed, / Should startle most; / Assassin, hid in our apartment, / Be horror's least.
The prudent carries a revolver, / He bolts the door, / O'erlooking a superior spectre / More near.