And a struggle—is all I know of death.

XXVII.

’Twas over! But then my death began;

I was a disembodied man!

Blind, and alone, and alive—but where!

I was falling, and floating, and flitting through air;

There was darkness here, there was darkness there;

Oh where was I, poor soul!

I had never a voice, and never a tongue,

And I felt no limbs, but still I was flung