This cave resembled the other, and was equally full of the remains of animals. Henry's mind was affected by wonder and awe; he felt as if passing through the outer-court of the central earth-palace. Heaven and earth lay at once far distant from him; these dark and vast halls seemed parts of some strange subterraneous kingdom. "May it not be possible," thought he to himself, "that beneath our feet there moves by itself a world in mighty life, that strange productions derive their being from the bowels of the earth, which sends forth the internal heat of its dark bosom into gigantic and preternatural shapes? Might not these awful strangers have been driven forth once by the piercing cold, and appeared amongst us, while perhaps at the same time heavenly guests, living, speaking energies of the stars, were visible above our heads? Are these bones the remains of their wandering upon the surface, or of their flight into the deep?" Suddenly the old man called them to him, and showed them the fresh track of a human foot upon the ground. They could discover no more, so that the old man concluded they might follow the track without fear of meeting robbers. They were about to do this, when suddenly, as from a great depth beneath their feet, a distinct strain arose. They listened attentively, with not a little astonishment. "In the vale I gladly linger, Smiling in the dusky night, For to me with rosy finger Proffers Love his cup of light. "With its dew my spirit sunken Wafted is toward the skies, And I stand in this life drunken At the gate of paradise. "Lulled in blessed contemplation, Vexes me no petty smart; O, the queen of all creation Gives to me her faithful heart. "Many years of tearful sorrows Glorified this common clay,-- Thence a graven form it borrows, Life securing it for aye. "Here the lapse of days evanished But a moment seems to me; Backward would I turn, if banished, Gazing hither gratefully." All were most agreeably surprised and eagerly wished to discover the singer. After some search, they found in an angle of the right wall a deep sunken path, to which the footsteps seemed to lead them. Soon they thought they perceived a light, which became clearer as they approached. A new vault of greater extent than those they had yet passed opened before them, in the further extremity of which they saw a human form sitting by a lamp, with a great book before him upon a slab, in which he appeared to be reading.