Thy soul shall find itself alone
'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone;
Not one, of all the crowd,
to pry Into thine hour of secrecy.
Be silent in that solitude,
Which is not loneliness
— for then The spirits of the dead,
who stood In life before thee, are again
In death around thee,
and their will Shall overshadow thee;
be still.
From “Spirits of the Dead” by Edgar Allan Poe