title: Procol Harum: The Ghosts Of A Whiter Shade of Pale
author:  Henry Scott-Irvine 
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  # The Pale Ape
  
  
  ### M. P. Shiel
  
  
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  "A big thing of a pig."—Aristophanes.
  
  
  Yesterday again I stood and looked at Hargen Hall from the lake;
  
  
  and it is this that has brought me to write of my life in it. Wintry
  
  
  winds were whistling through the withered bracken and the branches,
  
  
  whirling withered birch-leaves about the south quadrangle; and no birds
  
  
  sang.
  
  
  When I first entered it I was a girl, one might say—gay enough;
  
  
  but now I have known what one never forgets; and the days and the
  
  
  hairs grow grey together.
  
  
  Five titled names among my friends gained me an entrance to Hargen
  
  
  in the fall of the year '08. I arrived on the evening of 10 th
  
  
  November; and shall never forget the strangeness of the impression
  
  
  made on my mind that night: for even ere I rounded into sight of the
  
  
  house, the sound of the waters far off filled me with a feeling of the
  
  
  eerily