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The Daemon Tempts Justina, Who Is a Christian
DAEMON: / Abyss of Hell! I call on thee, / Thou wild misrule of thine own anarchy! / From thy prison-house set free / The spirits of voluptuous death, / That with their mighty breath / They may destroy a world of virgin thoughts; / Let her chaste mind with fancies thick as motes / Be peopled from thy shadowy deep, / Till her guiltless fantasy / Full to overflowing be! / And with sweetest harmony, / Let birds, and flowers, and leaves, and all things move / To love, only to love. / Let nothing meet her eyes / But signs of Love's soft victories; / Let nothing meet her ear / But sounds of Love's sweet sorrow, / So that from faith no succour she may borrow, / But, guided by my spirit blind / And in a magic snare entwined, / She may now seek Cyprian. / Begin, while I in silence bind / My voice, when thy sweet song thou hast began.