She calls her torturers up to goad
With spur and scourges on the road;
He does at last with pain whate’er
He spurned at first. Of such, beware,
Beware, beware!
Di. O God, O God! The great floods of the soul
Flow over me! I come into deep waters
Where no ground is!
Sp. Don’t be the least afraid;
There’s not the slightest reason for alarm;