Thy struggles are useless,—’tis revenge’s fell clasp

That holds thee resistless within its close grasp.

Look your last on my face, while thus with a blow[657]

I send your black soul to the regions below;—[658]

There[659]—Count de la Fontelle; now join your fair spouse

In the chambers of hell,[660] and keep your carouse—

Ha! that twinge again;[661]—twice I felt it before,—

And a drowsy sensation[662] seems now stealing o’er

All my frame;—God of heaven! what is this?[663] Can it be?

Poisoned![664] Ha! slave![665] thou hast done too for me.—