The Haunted Mind by Nathaniel Hawthorne
LitReading - Classic Short Stories
A Funeral Train Comes Grizzling by Your Bed
At midnight the mind has a passive sensibility but no active strength. The imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas without the power of selecting or controlling them. A funeral train comes gliding by your bed in which passion and feeling assume bodily ape. Then pray that your griefs may slumber and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain it is too late.
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