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/ 1. Ha! help! -- 'twas palpable! / A ghost that thronged / Up from the mind or hell / Of one I wronged!
/ 2. 'Tis past and -- silence! -- naught! -- / A vision born / Of the scared mind o'erwrought / With dreams forlorn:
/ 3. The bastard brood of Death / And Sleep that wakes / Grim fancies with its breath, / And reason shakes.
/ 4. Would that the grave _could_ rot / Like flesh the soul, / Gnaw through with worms and not / Leave it thus whole,
/ 5. More than it was in earth / Beyond the grave, / Much more in death than birth / To conscience slave!