nemesis

''thro' the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, i have liv'd o'er my lives without number ... i have whirl'd with the earth at the dawning' i have seen the dark universe yawning ... i had drifted o'er seas without ending' under sinister grey-clouded skies ... i have plung'd like a deer thro the arches of the hoary primordial grove ... i have stumbled by cave ridden mountains, that rise barren and bleak from the plain ... i have scanned the vast ivy-clad palace, i have trod its untenanted hall ... i have peer'd from the casement in wonder, at the mouldering meadows around ... i have haunted the tombs of the ages, i have flown on the pinions of fear ... i was old when the pharaohs first mounted, the jewel deck'd throne by the nile ... oh, great was the sin of my spirit and great is the reach of its doom; ... thro' the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber i have liv'd o'er my lives without number, and i struggle and shriek ere the daybreak, being driven to madness with fright.''

h.p.lovecraft, nemesis.