OLD Ghosts, ye all are dispossess’d,
Your former house is levell’d now;
Another house at my behest
Has lifted over yours, its brow.
But flit, old Ghosts, and live with me;
As yet we are but living hosts;
But watch the new house patiently,
You soon shall have companion Ghosts.
(Carolyn Clive)
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