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Sweet Spirit of Cesspool, hear a mother's prayer: / Her terrors pacify and offspring spare! / Upon Silurians alone let fall / (And God in Heaven have mercy on them all!) / The red revenges of your fragrant breath, / Hot with the flames invisible of death.
Sing in each nose a melody of smells, / And lead them snoutwise to their several hells!