In vengeance for my grief,

A dropping which shall smite

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The earth with barrenness!

And thence shall come, (O Vengeance!) on the plain

Down-swooping, blight of leaves and murrain dire

That o'er the land flings taint of pestilence.

Shall I then wail and groan?

Or what else shall I do?

Shall I become a woe intolerable