Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

F . W . Stokoe . *MARY FORD AND JIMMY PRICE . A GHOST STORY. JIMMY Price was twelve, and played Where the chestnut cast a shade Near the crumbling house of God, Anno Domini, Nineteen Odd . Mary Ford , at twenty - five, Gave up pretending to be alive : This, says her tombstone under the tree, Happened in 1743 . Now , as Jimmy plays alone, All his pretty fellows gone Home to supper , home to bed , Mary rises from the dead. Just her very self again Mary rises , prim and plain . Jimmy, scared to death almost, Shut his eyes to hide the ghost . Mary cried to him : “ Never fear , I won 't hurt you , Jimmy dear : It's only Mary , poor Mary Ford , Tired of resting in the Lord . 182