"I dare not think--I cannot pray;

To name the name of God were sin:

No grief of mine can wash away

The consciousness of guilt within.

The stain of blood is on my hand,

The curse of Cain is on my brow;--

I see that ghastly phantom stand

Between me and the sunshine now!

That mocking face still haunts my dreams,

That blood-shot eye that never sleeps,