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- THE APPARITIONS
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- BECAUSE there is safety in derision
- I talked about an apparition,
- I took no trouble to convince,
- Or seem plausible to a man of sense.
- Distrustful of thar popular eye
- Whether it be bold or sly.
- i{Fifteen apparitions have I seen;}
- i{The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger.}
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- I have found nothing half so good
- As my long-planned half solitude,
- Where I can sit up half the night
- With some friend that has the wit
- Not to allow his looks to tell
- When I am unintelligible.
- i{Fifteen apparitions have I seen;}
- i{The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger.}
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- When a man grows old his joy
- Grows more deep day after day,
- His empty heart is full at length,
- But he has need of all that strength
- Because of the increasing Night
- That opens her mystery and fright.
- i{Fifteen apparitions have I seen;}
- i{The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger.}
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