• Here in the dark what ghostly figures press!—
    No phantom of the Past, or grim or sad;
    No wailing spirit of woe; no spectre, clad
    In white and wandering cloud, whose dumb distress
    Is that its crime it never may confess;
    No shape from the strewn sea; nor they that add
    The link of Life and Death,—the tearless mad,
    That live nor die in dreary...