The Roommate From Hell

423: to which thou art going in such career.

424: I said, perhaps you will be willing to shew me my eternal lot

425: & we will contemplate together upon it and see whether your lot or mine is most desirable.

426: So he took me thro’ a stable & thro’ a church & down into the church vault at the end of which was a mill:

428: & we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity, but I said,

429: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void, and see whether providence is here also, if you will not, I will?

430: but he answer’d, do not presume O young-man but as we here remain behold thy lot which will soon appear when the darkness passes away.

436: Let the Priests of the Raven of dawn,

437: No longer in deadly black,

438: with hoarse note curse the sons of joy.

443: that wishes but acts not!

444: For every thing that lives is Holy.