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Within my heart a worm had long been hid.
I knew it not when I went down and chid / Because some servants of my inner house / Had not, I found, of late been doing well, / But then I spied the horror hideous / Dwelling defiant in the inmost cell -- / No, not the inmost, for there God did dwell!