...ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. Th • stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what...From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands. And uold in mortmain still their old estates. The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an...

...ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what...All that has been is visible and clear. We have no title deeds to house or lands ; Owners and occupants of earlier dates From graves forgotten stretch...

...on the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms 1 see, nor hear the sounds I hear; ae but perceives what is ; while unto me All that has...have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners and oceupants of earlier dates From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still...

...the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms 1 see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; lie but perceives what is : while unto me All that has...have no title.deeds to house or lands ; Owners and owupants of earlier dates From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still...

...ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. The stranger at the fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear; He but perceives what...to house or lands ; Owners and occupants of earlier date From graves forgotten stretch their dusky hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estate....

...ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. The stranger at the fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear; He but perceives what...been is visible and clear. We have no title-deeds to hou^e or lands; Owners and occupants of earlier date From graves forgotten stretch their dusky hands,...

...MONTGOMERIE RANKING. 211 A SHETLAND STORY. CHAPTER I. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what...while unto me All that has been is visible and clear. — LONGFELLOW. A WARM, bright, mirthful July morning. Early morning we Southerners would say it was...

...through meadow thick with flowers in Spring, remember how many of the good and noble dwelt here. ' Owners and occupants of earlier dates, From graves...hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates.' Here Cromwell built a house for the daughter who married General Ireton (now used as a hospital for...

...verse from the same poet, which expresses the idea better and briefer than I otherwise can : — " We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners...earlier dates From graves forgotten stretch their dusky hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates." She may have lent to these venerable articles...

...quiet, inoffensive ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see He but perceives what is ; while unto me All that...their old estates. The spirit-world around this world 9f sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere "Wafts through these earthly mists and vapors dense...