A Didactic Fantasy

Last night as I lay sleeping on my bed, I dreamed a dream as strange as e’er I’d done. Time had flown by as Satan on the wing Had from Hell’s vaulted cavern swiftly sped Through CHAOS.  And as he betook himself To other worlds, so I did find myself In places new and unconceived and such As mortal man had never seen before. Before a hall of college students large I stood and as I oft had done, in days When I was yet a student, spoke, though briefer Than I was accustomed to.  I felt...