Thought on thought of bitter sadness, dissipating hope and

gladness,

Goading me to worse than madness, crowded on me by the

score;

Ne'er before incarcerated, how that Peeler's form I hated,

Cries for freedom, unabated—'wrenched from out my bosom's

core'—

Broke upon the midnight stillness, "Robert, set me free

once more!"

Quoth the Peeler, "Never more!"