How deep the avenging steel,
With fatal aim, pierced through his guilty breast!
While ’mid the mortal chill
His starting eye the demon-soul expressed!—
Until it closed forever, and the blood
Made dark the waters where the ruthless monster stood!
So, ’neath this fragile form
Dwelt the resolve that made thy country free—
And this fair, feeble arm
Performed a deed of immortality!