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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.