“It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, and to see the symptoms of vitality disappear one by one, till nothing is left but coldness, darkness, and corruption.” CountryLeftDifficultSituationWatchesDarknessFitPainfulCorruptionDisappearAgonyExhaustedSymptomsVitalityDissolutionLingeringColdness Author:Zachary Macaulay