VI + 

Spooks + 

Last night I dreamed that I was come again + 

Unto the house where my belovèd dwells + 

After long years of wandering and pain. + 

And I stood out beneath the drenching rain + 

And all the street was bare, and black with night, + 

But in my true love’s house was warmth and light. + 

Yet I could not draw near nor enter in, + 

And long I wondered if some secret sin + 

Or old, unhappy anger held me fast; + 

Till suddenly it came into my head + 

That I was killed long since and lying dead⁠— + 

Only a homeless wraith that way had passed. + 

So thus I found my true love’s house again + 

And stood unseen amid the winter night + 

And the lamp burned within, a rosy light, + 

And the wet street was shining in the rain. + 