Be with me
always –
take any
form –
drive me
mad! only
do not
leave me
in this
abyss,
where I
cannot
find you!
Oh, God!
it is
unutterable!
I cannot
live
without my
life! I
cannot
live
without my
soul!” He
dashed his
head
against
the
knotted
trunk;
and,
lifting up
his eyes,
howled,
not like a
man, but
like a
savage
beast
being
goaded to
death with
knives and
spears. I
observed
several
splashes
of blood
about the
bark of
