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They gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghostly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave, and (strange to tell), Evanishes at crowing of the cock. - Hugh Blair Some have mistaken blocks and posts, For spectres, apparitions, ghosts, With saucer-eyes and horns; and some Have heard the devil beat a drum. - Samuel Butler (1) Many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night; They have driven sleep from mine eyes away. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. - Alexander Pope Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood, is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes, Which thou dost glare with! - William Shakespeare But, soft: behold! lo, where it comes again! I'll cross it, though it blast me.--Stay, illusion! If thou hast any sound, or use a voice, Speak to me. - William Shakespeare I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away. - William Shakespeare I can call up spirits from the vasty deep.-- --Why so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them? - William Shakespeare It was about to speak, when the cock crew, And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. - William Shakespeare O, answer me: Let me not burst in ignorance! but tell, Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements! why the sepulchre Wherein we saw thee quietly in-urn'd, Hath op'd his ponderous and marble laws, To cast thee up again? - William Shakespeare
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