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Ghost and the Mountain Ash What turn of thought returned my mind today to Ghost -- a ghost of my childhood, the first who showed me how our eyes look looking into death, and the last my father buried under the Mountain Ash, the Ash now also ashes after old age? Even now, I cannot hear these names as only names. Just say it -- "Ghost," "the Mountain Ash" -- the sound will make my ears my own -- entirely. | ||