My Spirit Will Sleep In Peace; Or

And The Violet Lay Dead While The Odour Flew On The Wings Of The Wind O'er The Waters Blue.

I Saw And Heard Of None Like Me. Was I Then A Monster, A Blot Upon The Earth, From Which All Men Fled, And Whom All Men Disowned?

He Was Soon Borne Away By The Waves And Lost In Darkness And Distance.

How Mutable Are Our Feelings, And How Strange Is That Clinging Love We Have Of Life Even In The Excess Of Misery!

Curiosity, Earnest Research To Learn The Hidden Laws Of Nature, Gladness Akin To Rapture, As They Unfolded To Me, Are Among The Earliest Sensations I Can Remember.