It Is A Happiness To Wonder; --

If You Have Never Been At Sea In A Heavy Gale, You Can Form No Idea Of The Confusion Of Mind Occasioned By Wind And Spry Together. They Blind, Deafen, And Strangle You, And Take Away All Power Of Action Or Reflection.

There Are Some Secrets Which Do Not Permit Themselves To Be Told.

In Spite Of The Air Of Fablethe Public Were Still Not At All Disposed To Receive It As Fable. I Thence Concluded That The Facts Of My Narrative Would Prove Of Such A Nature As To Carry With Them Sufficient Evidence Of Their Own Authenticity.

Yet, Mad Am I Not — And Very Surely Do I Not Dream.

Scorching My Seared Heart With A Pain, Not Hell Shall Make Me Fear Again.