And thence rebound with bubbling hiss;

Their throats with sulph’rous vapor choked,

Their slimy length begrimed and smoked;

Each hideous skin as if ’twould burst,

By belching out the draught accurst;

All tortured and convulsed with rage,

To whom each moment seems an age—

Who vainly call “emancipation,”

To free them from that deep damnation,

Or else for swift annihilation!