Fervent Prayer

Replenished with the water, the journey
Continued with haste but somehow
They found themselves separated
Professor Lidenborck’s nephew Axel
Found himself alone
His mind was seized with unparalleled fear
And he saw memories of home flashing before
Him — his fiancèe Grauben, his house and
Friends in Hamburg
He saw hallucinations of all the incidents
Of the journey and, unworthy as he felt
He knelt in fervent prayer