During all my first sleep, I was following the windings of an unknown road; total obscurity environed me; rain pelted me; I was burdened with the charge of a little child: a very small creature, too young and feeble to walk, and which shivered in my cold arms, and wailed piteously in my ear.
Al principio del mio sonno, credevo seguire le sinuosità d'un cammino ignoto, una oscurità completa mi circondava, la pioggia rendeva fradice le mie vesti. Portavo un piccolo fanciullo, troppo giovane e troppo debole per camminare; rabbrividiva nelle mie braccia ghiacciate e piangeva amaramente.