Yes, I have felt all man can feel,

Till he shall pay his nature’s debt;

Ills that no hope has strength to heal,

No mind the comfort to forget:

Whatever cares the heart can fret,

The spirits wear, the temper gall,

Woe, want, dread, anguish, all beset

My sinful soul! - together all!

Those fiends upon a shaking fen

Fix’d me, in dark tempestuous night;