The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Fragment of a Ghost Story

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FRAGMENT OF A GHOST STORY

[Published by Garnett, Relics of Shelley, 1862.]

A shovel of his ashes tookFrom the hearth's obscurest nook,Muttering mysteries as she went.Helen and Henry knew that GrannyWas as much afraid of Ghosts as any,5And so they followed hard—But Helen clung to her brother's arm,And her own spasm made her shake.

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