be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched. He is dead who ` ` called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance ` ` of us both will speedily vanish. I shall no longer see the sun or ` ` stars or feel the winds play on my cheeks. ` ` ` ` "Light, feeling, and sense will pass away; and in this condition must I ` ` find my happiness. Some years ago, when the images which this world ` ` affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer ` ` and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and ` ` these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only ` ` consolation. Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, ` ` where can I find rest but in death? ` ` ` ` "Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these ` ` eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Frankenstein! If thou wert yet alive ` ` and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better ` ` satiated in my life than in my destruction. But it was not so; thou ` ` didst seek my extinction, that I might not cause greater wretchedness; ` ` and if yet, in some mode unknown to me, thou hadst not ceased to think ` ` and feel, thou wouldst not desire against me a vengeance greater than ` ` that which I feel. Blasted as thou wert, my agony was still superior to ` ` thine, for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to rankle in my ` ` wounds until death shall close them forever. ` ` ` ` "But soon," he cried with sad and solemn enthusiasm, "I shall die, and ` ` what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be ` ` extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the ` ` agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will ` ` fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit ` ` will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. ` ` Farewell." ` ` ` ` He sprang from the cabin window as he said this, upon the ice raft ` ` which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves and ` ` lost in darkness and distance. ` ` ` `