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Rh “And a slight flash sprang o’er my eyes, “Which saw no farther: he who dies “Can die no more than then I died. “O’ertortured by that ghastly ride, “I felt the blackness come and go, “And strove to wake; but could not make “My senses climb up from below: “I felt as on a plank at sea, “When all the waves that dash o’er thee, “At the same time upheave and whelm, “And hurl thee towards a desert realm. “My undulating life was as “The fancied lights that flitting pass “Our shut eyes in deep midnight, when “Fever begins upon the brain; “But soon it pass’d, with little pain, “But a confusion worse than such: “I own that I should deem it much, “Dying, to feel the same again; “And yet I do suppose we must “Feel far more ere we turn to dust: