(And all my advisers told me so).

But, healthy or not, I enjoy'd them vastly;

My feverish fancy was nightly ———-

Upon horrible crimes and murders ghastly

Which sent me terrified off to—————-

III.

Well: what with perils upon the prairies,

And haunted ruins and ghosts in white,

And wars with giants and gifts from fairies,

At last I came to be craz'd outright.