And then take poison to escape the gallows—
Tales, whose original refinement teaches
The pride of eloquence in—dying speeches!
What an apotheosis have we here!
What equal laws th’ awards of fame dispose!
Capture a fort—assassinate a peer—
Alike be chronicled in startling prose—
Alike be dramatised—(how near
Is clever crime to virtue!)—at Tussaud’s
Be grouped with all the criminals at large,