What pain darts across me![666] My blood is on fire!

My brain reels,—Oh, mercy! is’t thus I expire![667]

Help! help! Oh, will no one attend to my cry!

Must I in my agony unaided lie,

And suffer the torment the damned[668] only feel!

Ha! no;—I’ve a friend left in thee, faithful steel:[669]

Thou shalt end all and quickly;—thy virtue I’ll try;

Ah, Count! thou art well avenged;—thus—thus![670] I die!

Thos. F. Wilford, A. M.

[Gestures.]