“Still there they stood, and forced me to behold
A place of horrors - they can not 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’ -
Yes, so they said” - But here he ceased and gazed
On all around, affrighten’d and amazed;
And still he tried to speak, and look’d in dread
Of frighten’d females gathering round his bed;