not give you a world changed, as the world has thus been to Dr. Benson."

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[Pg 75]

II.

 THE GHOST AT FORD INN—NESHAMONY.

PART FIRST.

There, where the time-worn bridge at School House Run,

Spans o'er the stream unquiet as our lives,

You find a place where few will pause at night;

Where the foot-fall is quick, and all press on

As if a winter's blast had touched the frame,

And men drew to themselves. Oft there is seen,

So men aver, the quiet gliding ghost.

Descend yon hill, near woods so desolate,

With upward gloom, and tangled undergrowths,

And shadows mouldering in the brightest day.

Near is the Indian spring's unmurmuring flow.

The summit now is gladdened by the Church.

You leave all village sounds, and are alone,

On grass-worn paths your feet emit no sound.

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