Despite of my utmost endeavor.

O live foes I thought to illumine,

Henceforth lie untroubled your gloom in!

I need my own light, every spark, as

I couch with this sole friend—a carcase!"

XIX

Two days thus he maundered and rambled;

Then, starved back to sanity, scrambled

From out his receptacle loathsome.

"A spectre!"—declared upon oath some