"God only!" I said, as I sank into the vast profound,--and lo! while the
words yet trembled on my lips, I saw the sun! The sweet earth's
sun!--the kindly orb familiar,--the lamp of God's protection,--its
golden rim came glittering upwards in the east,--higher and higher it
rose, making a shining background for that mighty Figure, whose darkly
luminous wings now seemed like sable storm-clouds stretched wide across
the horizon! Once more ... yet once, ... the Angel-visage bent its
warning looks on me, ... I saw the anguished smile, ... the great eyes
burning with immortal sorrows! ... then, I was plunged forcibly
downwards and thrust into an abysmal grave of frozen cold.