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Glee - The Ghosts
by Thomas Love Peacock (from Melincourt)

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IN LIFE three ghostly friars were we,
And now three friarly ghosts we be.
Around our shadowy table placed,
The spectral bowl before us floats:
With wine that none but ghosts can taste,
We wash our unsubstantial throats.
Three merry ghosts — three merry ghosts —
        three merry ghosts are we:
Let the ocean be Port, and we'll think it good sport
To be laid in that Red Sea.


With songs that jovial spectres chaunt,
Our old refectory still we haunt.
The traveller hears our midnight mirth:
"O list!" he cries, "the haunted choir!
"The merriest ghost that walks the earth, "
"Is sure the ghost of a ghostly friar."
Three merry ghosts — three merry ghosts —
         three merry ghosts are we:
Let the ocean be Port, and we'll think it good sport
To be laid in that Red Sea.

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Music courtesy of Edward Gold
Vocals courtesy of David W. Solomons
Artwork courtesy of Joseph Dillon Ford


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(1785-1866)

Thomas Love Peacock is not, and never was, a popular author. He is for the scholar, the man of leisure, and the literary antiquarian, an abiding source of delight. He is not a professional novelist who sets out to tell a story and hurries along to get it told, but a leisured person, full of good sense and humour of a satirical kind, who adopts a mildly fictional form to discourse his opinions upon things like art, literature, politics, and wine. continued here

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