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APPARITIONS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

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First Line: AT NOON OF NIGHT, AND AT THE NIGHT'S PALE END
Last Line: THAN THAT THE QUICK SHOULD DIE?
Subject(s): GHOSTS;
AT noon of night, and at the night's pale end,
Such things have chanced to me
As one, by day, would scarcely tell a friend
For fear of mockery.

Shadows, you say, mirages of the brain!
I know not, faith, not I.
Is it more strange the dead should walk again
Than that the quick should die?



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