Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GHOST, by MARGARET SACKVILLE


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First Line: One night within the music hall
Last Line: As though he had not been!
Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The


ONE night within the Music Hall,
Beside me in a vacant place,
I saw him sitting fair and tall,
The light upon his face.

Not changed.—He smiled in the old way;
I bent towards him, "So," I said,
"You're back"—then turned and watched the play,
Forgetting he was dead.

I saw him there without a doubt,
But at the close of the next scene,
He'd gone,—just as a lamp goes out,
As though he had not been!





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