Halloween Countdown 2024, Day 20

Today we begin the final part of our countdown this year with texts (that are available online) about Halloween itself!

Today’s work is Halloween, A Romaunt, with Lays, Meditative and Devotional (1845) by H.S. Parsons.

Read it here.

Quote: If souls, once more, to these their haunts on earth,

Can come, dear Lady, from the Spirit-land,

I ask’d thee,—would it spoil thine hour of mirth,

To see some sudden shape before thee stand!

And a cold shudder told me, and thine hand

Press’d dearer to mine own. But then said I,

Oh! if thy friend were dead, and could command

Some midnight hour to visit thee; reply,

Say, would it grieve thee, Love, if love could never die!

ALT