One need not be a Chamber--to be Haunted--
One need not be a House--
The Brain has Corridors--surpassing
Material Place--
Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting
External Ghost
Than it's interior Confronting--
That Cooler Host.
Far safer, through an Abbey gallop,
The Stones a'chase--
Than Unarmed, one's a'self encounter--
In Lonesome Place--
The Body--borrows a Revolver--
He bolts the Door--
O'erlooking a superior spectre--
Or More--
(1863)