My soul was ever plagued by loneliness.
By spirit-sight alone was I upborne.
And yet;—in Strader’s case I was deceived.
Romanus:
I often felt as though some gruesome shape
Was pressing painfully upon my soul
Whene’er thy words were in the course of life
Shown to be naught but errors and mistakes;
That as the spirit-sight seemed to deceive
My mystic master did this shape become