To send souls heavenward through the flames of hell.

And you, poor palsied creatures! you, ere long,

With them thrice cursed shall swell Gehenna’s throng.

Your God is dead; your heaven a hope bewrayed;

Your hell a by-word, and your creed a trade;

Your vengeance—what? A mere polluting touch—

cripple striking with a broken crutch!”

CHAPTER XXXIV.