The Haunted Hour | Page 5

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The Blue Closet William Morris 163
The Ghost's Petition Christina Georgina Rossetti 166
He and She Sir Edwin Arnold 169

SHAPES OF DOOM
The Dead Coach Katherine Tynan 175
Deid Folks' Ferry Rosamund Marriott Watson 176
Keith of Ravelston Sydney Dobell 178
The Fetch Dora Sigerson Shorter 179
The Banshee Dora Sigerson Shorter 183
The Seven Whistlers Alice E. Gillington 185
The Victor Theodosia Garrison 187

Mawgan of Melhuach Robert Stephen Hawker 188 The Mother's Ghost Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 189 The Dead Mother Robert Buchanan 192
LEGENDS AND BALLADS OF THE DEAD
The Folk of the Air William Butler Yeats 199 The Reconciliation A. Margaret Ramsay 201 The Priest's Brother Dora Sigerson Shorter 203 The Ballad of Judas
Iscariot Robert Buchanan 205
The Eve of St. John Walter Scott 212
Fair Margaret's Misfortunes Anon. 220
Sweet William's Ghost Anon. 222
Clerk Saunders Anon. 224
The Wife of Usher's Well Anon. 229
A Lyke-Wake Dirge Anon. 231

THE HAUNTED HOUR
THE FAR AWAY COUNTRY
NORA HOPPER CHESSON
Far away's the country where I desire to go,?Far away's the country where the blue roses grow,?Far away's the country and very far away,?And who would travel thither must go 'twixt night and day.
Far away's the country, and the seas are wild?That you must voyage over, grown man or chrisom child,?O'er leagues of land and water a weary way you'll go?Before you'll find the country where the blue roses grow.
But O, and O, the roses are very strange and fair,?You'd travel far to see them, and one might die to wear,?Yet, far away's the country, and perilous the sea,?And some may think far fairer the red rose on her tree.
Far away's the country, and strange the way to fare,?Far away's the country--O would that I were there!?It's on and on past Whinny Muir and over Brig o' Dread.?And you shall pluck blue roses the day that you are dead.
"THE NICHT ATWEEN THE SANCTS AN' SOULS"
ALL-SOULS: KATHERINE TYNAN
The door of Heaven is on