Haunted Hide and Seek

The wedding feast is finished, but your bride,

Hoping to continue with the fun,

Proposes that you play a game of hide

And seek, before the guests have all gone home.

She tells you that, as host, you are first 'on'.

In vain you try to warn your wayward spouse

That hide and seek is dangerous in a haunted house.

This poem recreates, in puzzle-poem format, a tragic incident that happened about two hundred years ago at Marwell Hall, near Owslebury in Hampshire. The scene is a wedding feast, and you pl...