A sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.

Iciness, a sinking of the heart.

I felt I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow,

wildly singular in its terror.

Dull, dark, and soundless, my brain reeled.

Tis folly to grieve or to think.

I shall perish!

Sooner or later I must abandon life.

Dreams, they have endured but an instant.

Fear, deadly terror

A gradual wasting away of person.

Decayed fingers arose to my nostrils as

I struggled to reason off the nervousness.

"Death" "Nevermore"

Rapping, ripping at my chamber door.

Dying embers sank into nothingness,

the flames went utterly out.

Blackness of eternal night encompassed me.

Completely unnerved, I worried heaven with my prayers.

He had come like a thief in the night,

black-robed fate, his shadow on the floor,

tapping, tapping at my chamber door.

I raged most furiously deaths embrace.

A deadly terror, an agony of suspense.

To my horror the figure of time, with ravenous eyes,

plans to hurl me into the abyss,

a rushing decent of the soul into Hades.

I shall perish!

I must perish!

I fell prostrate in death, sank into nothingness.

The agony of my soul found vent,

in one loud final scream of despair.

The intensity of the darkness

seemed to oppress and stifle me.

I grew aghast lest there should be nothing to see.

In death - no even in the grave, all is not lost.

A faint gleam of light flashed suddenly through the gloom.

A flood of intense rays rolled throughout,

and bathed the whole in a ghastly, inappropriate splendor.

Spirits moving musically,

the radiance was that of the full setting.

The ruler of the realm was seen!

Eternal Peace, Deliverance, Escape

I erred in my calculations, enduring in vain.

For a wild moment, did my spirit refuse to comprehend.

I buried my face in my hands weeping.

The more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt.

"Death holds illimitable domain over all"