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PHANTASMAGORIA.
19
"Spectres of course are rich, and so
Can buy them from the Elves:
But we prefer to keep below—
They're stupid company, you know,
For any but themselves.
"For, though they claim to be exempt
From pride, they treat a Phantom
As something quite beneath contempt,
(Just as no turkey ever dreamt
Of noticing a bantam)."
"They seem too proud," said I, "to go
To houses such as mine—
Pray how did they contrive to know
So quickly that 'the place was low'
And that I 'kept bad wine'?"
