Mis-shapen forms, ghastly and horrible;—

And mixes, in the chaos of the brain,

Terrors, half real, half unnatural;—

Till nature, struggling under the oppression,

Rouses the sleeping wretch,—who starts, and wipes

The chilly drop from off his clay-cold temples;

And fain would call for help, yet dares not utter,

But trembles on his couch, silent and horror struck!

Adeline. Attempt not to dissuade me; I am fix'd.