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Eiros, who was living at the time, relates to Charmion, who had died some years before, the nature of the last awful event. "I need scarcely tell you," says the disembodied spirit, "that even when you left us, men had agreed to understand those passages in the most holy writings which speak of the final destruction of all things by fire, as having reference to the orb of the earth alone.
I am burning with anxiety to hear the details of that stupendous event which threw you among us. Tell me of it. Let us converse of familiar things, in the old familiar language of the world which has so fearfully perished. Most fearfully, fearfully! this is indeed no dream. Dreams are no more. Was I much mourned, my Eiros? Mourned, Charmion? oh deeply.
For that which was not for that which had no form for that which had no thought for that which had no sentience for that which was soulless, yet of which matter formed no portion for all this nothingness, yet for all this immortality, the grave was still a home, and the corrosive hours, co-mates. I will bring fire to thee. Euripides Androm: EIROS. Why do you call me Eiros?
In another of these nondescript papers, "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion," Mr Poe has very boldly undertaken to figure forth the destruction of the world, and explain how that great and final catastrophe will be accomplished.
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