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EVIL SPIRIT (SERVICE, ORGAN _and_ ANTHEM) (MARGARET _among much people: the_ EVIL SPIRIT _behind_ MARGARET. ): HOW otherwise was it, Margaret, When thou, still innocent, Here to the altar cam'st, And from the worn and fingered book Thy prayers didst prattle, Half sport of childhood, Half God within thee! Margaret! Where tends thy thought? Within thy bosom What hidden crime? Pray'st thou for mercy on thy mother's soul, That fell asleep to long, long torment, and through thee? Upon thy threshold whose the blood? And stirreth not and quickens Something beneath thy heart, Thy life disquieting With most foreboding presence?
MARGARET: Woe! woe! Would I were free from the thoughts That cross me, drawing hither and thither Despite me!