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IN THE OLD FARM-HOUSE; THE GHOST by HERMAN MELVILLE

Poet Analysis

First Line: DEAD OF NIGHT, DEAD OF NIGHT
Last Line: AND FALSTAFF IN VIEW.
Subject(s): DRAMATISTS; PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS; POETRY & POETS; SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616);
Dead of night, dead of night,
Living souls are a'bed;
Dead of night, dead of night,
And I sit with the dead.

He laughs in white sheet,
And I, I laugh too,
'Tis Shakespeare -- good fellow --
And Falstaff in view.



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