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Death and birth should dwell not near together:
Wealth keeps house not, even for shame, with dearth:
Fate doth ill to link in one brief tether   Death and birth
Harsh the yoke that binds them, strange the

I am not yet born;
O hear me
Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or theclub-footed ghoul come near me
I am not yet born, console me

For a thousand years the Devil crouched On the white hot flags of hell:
For a thousand years the Devil cursed The imps that had chained him well;
For a thousand years the Devil sulked And planned with his hell-trained
Of the things ...