Lamp Post's Blog – November 2009 Archive (1)

The Haunted Palace



In the greenest of our valleys

By good angels tenanted,

Once a fair and stately palace-

Radiant palace-reared its head.

In the monarch Thought's dominion-

It stood there!

Never seraph spread a pinion

Over fabric half so fair!



Banners yellow, glorious, golden,

On its roof did float and flow,

(This-all this-was in the olden

Time long ago,)

And every gentle air that dallied,

In that sweet… Continue