"Seraphs and saints with one great voice
Welcomed that soul that knew not fear.
Amazed to find it could rejoice,
Hell raised a hoarse, half-human cheer."
John Davidson (1857-1909), Scottish poet. A Ballad of Hell (l. 93-96).
MoBrPo. Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
"How long she stayed I cannot tell;
But when she felt this perfidy,
She marched across the floor of hell;
And all the damned stood up to see."
John Davidson (1857-1909), Scottish poet. A Ballad of Hell (l. 77-80).
MoBrPo. Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
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