And a walk through his kingdom, for pleasure, we’d take.
“I’ll show you,” said he, “how my quarters are crammed,
In their various regions, with ghosts of the damned.”
“I præ, sequar,” said I, “go ahead and I’ll follow;”
So he led me along, through a mighty big hollow;
On my right hand I saw what appeared to my sight
An iron-walled palace of towering height:
I scanned it with wonder, but as I drew nigher
I perceived that it was a huge furnace of fire:
Its apartments above, and its basement below