text:  A happy being in a happy place As 'twere a captive from his chains released His dungeon and its darkness there I lay Nestling amid the sun-illumined flowers Revolving silently the varied scenes Grotesque and grim 'mid which my erring feet Had stumbled; and a brightness darting in On my mysterious night-mare something told The what and wherefore of the effigies grim-- The wolfish never-resting tombless man Voicelessly haunting that ancestral home-- Yea of his destiny for evermore To suffer fearful life-in-death until A victim suffer'd from the sons of men To soothe the cravings of insatiate hell; An agony for age undergone-- An agony for ages to be borne Hope still elusive baffled by despair