Yet, as I sped, methought a dizzy shore
Beguiled my feet aside, so to descry
What depths the abysm held. Pallid and wan
Shrank my Instructor on my curious eye.
Treading its perilous edge I did essay
To plumb the gulf, with darkness doubly fraught;
When, gazing with profound intent, a wind
Broke with an awful triumph up its steep
Embankments jagged forth on me.
All terror-strick’n upstarted I, to find