The Roommate From Hell

410: he only takes portions of existence and fancies that the whole.

420: An Angel came to me and said O pitiable foolish young man!

421: O horrible! O dreadful state!

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:

427: thro’ the mill we went, and came to a cave, down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way till a void boundless as a nether sky appear’d beneath us,

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.