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"In Time Of War" I will read
because it's the broadside that

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was made for this
event, and you know,

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I've always been kind
of interested in ghosts.

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And then I finally met one,
and I'm not interested in them

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anymore.

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But after I met this
ghost, I decided

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to research the different
ghosts of Europe

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in the old buildings,
like castles and manor

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houses and old buildings.

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They all have these stories,
and they're very similar.

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But I don't think
that's what we should

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be afraid of is what
the poem is about.

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It's titled "In Time Of War."

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And so we stayed night
after night awake

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until the moon fell behind
the blackened Cypress,

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and bats returned
to their caverns

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having gorged on the night air.

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And all remained
still until the hour

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of rising when the Headless
Woman was no longer seen

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nor a ghostly drum
heard nor anyone taking

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the form of mist or a Fiddler.

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And the box never
opened by itself,

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nor were there whispers or
other sounds, no rustling

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dress or pet ape trapped
in a secret passage.

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But there was a labored
breathing and unseen hands

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leafing through the pages
of a visitor's book,

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and above the ruins
a girl in white lace

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and five or more
candles floating.

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And someone did see a white
dog bound into a nearby wood,

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but there were neither
bagpipes nor a smiling skull,

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no skeletons piled
in the oubliette,

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and there was as it turned
out no yellow monkey, no blood

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leaking from a slit throat.

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And no one saw a woman
carrying the severed head.

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But there were children
standing on their own graves,

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and there was the
distant rumble of cannon.

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