MANY times more than twice have I seen
the ghosts of family, friends and then
some whose faces that I did not know.

Quaintly, with ethereal elegance they are
silky touch, feathered-breath and opal eye'd
outside of the tic-toc of Father Time.

It is most inappropriate to ask of them
to state their business or intended pleasure
;extend your politeness over scorn I say

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