[texhax] 'verbatim' inside 'raisebox'?

[T Ziomek]

I need to put pre-formatted text (ala HTML <PRE> or <CODE>) within
a 'raisebox'.  AFAICT the Tex way to do this is via 'verbatim'
(though I'd welcome alternative suggestions).  But Tex (specific-
ally, pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2) fails on the 2nd clos-
ing '}'.

My simplest test case:
  \documentclass{article}
  \begin{document}
  \raisebox
     {-1.5 cm}
     {
        \begin{verbatim}
           Some text
        \end{verbatim}
     }
  \end{document}

Output:
  % latex t2.tex
  This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
  entering extended mode
  (./t2.tex
  LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
  Babel  and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
  ngerman, b ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech,
  danish, dutch, esperanto, e stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic,
  irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, polis h, portuges,
  romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish,
  tur kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
  (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
  Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
  (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
  No file t2.aux.
  
  ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
  
  See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
  Type  H   for immediate help.
   ...                                              
                                                    
  l.9    }
           
  ? 


I see the same issue if I include "\usepackage{verbatim}".

Any suggestions?  Thanks,
Tom


I don't think my larger use case matters, but just in case:  I'm using
the message sequence chart package from
<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/msc/>.  Some of
my MSC message flows require formatted text, and 'raisebox' so the
message line/arrow doesn't overlap the text, so it's on a '\mess' that
I'm trying to use 'raisebox' and within that 'verbatim'.
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