Then flung the hot-red liquor in my face;

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Burning it blazed, and then I roar'd for pain,

I thought the demons would have turn'd my brain.

"Still there they stood, and forced me to behold

A place of horrors—they cannot be told—

Where the flood open'd, there I heard the shriek

Of tortured guilt no earthly tongue can speak:

'All days alike! for ever!' did they say,

'And unremitted torments every day!'—