The Pit and the Pendulum I
The Pit and the Pendulum
‘Impia tortorum longas hic turba furores
Sanguinis innocui, non satiata, aluit.
Sospite nunc patria, fracto nunc funeris antro,
Mors ubi dira fuit vita salusque patent.’
[Quatrain composed for the gates of a market to be erected upon the si...