The shapes arise! The shape of the prisoner’s place in the court-room, and of him or her seated in the place, The shape of the liquor-bar lean’d against by the young rum-drinker and the old rum-drinker, The shape of the shamed and angry stairs trod by sneaking footsteps, The shape of the sly settee, and the adulterous unwholesome couple, The shape of the gambling-board with its devilish winnings and losings, The shape of the step-ladder for the convicted and sentenced murderer, the murderer with haggard face and pinion’d arms, The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipp’d crowd, the dangling of the rope.