“Full be his cup, with evil fraught,

Demons his guides, and death his doom!”

Then was I cast from out my state;

Two fiends of darkness led my way;

They waked me early, watch’d me late,

My dread by night, my plague by day!

Oh! I was made their sport, their play,

Through many a stormy troubled year;

And how they used their passive prey

Is sad to tell: - but you shall hear.