Awoke, and writhed through all his giant frame,

That redden'd, and dilated, like a sun!

Till moved by some remember'd bliss, or joy

Of paradisal hours, or to supply

The cravings of infernal wrath,—he bade

The roar of Hell be hush'd,—and silence was!

He called the cursed,—and they flash'd from cave

And wild—from dungeon and from den they came,

And stood an unimaginable mass

Of spirits, agonized with burning pangs: