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A ghost that loved a lady fair, Ever in the starry air Of midnight at her pillow stood: And, with a sweetnes skies above The luring words of human love, Her soul the phantom wooed. Sweet and sweet is their poisoned note, The little snakes of silver throat, In mossy skulls that nest and lie, Ever sining "Die, oh! die." Young soul put off your flesh and come With me into the quiet tomb, Our bed is lovely, dark and sweet; The earth will sing us, as she goes, Beneath our coverlet of snows, And the warm leaden sheet. Dear and dear is their poisoned note, The little snakes of silver throat, In mossy skulls that nest and lie, Ever singing "Die oh! die."