Ransack’d the heavens for one more pure and whole

To fill the empty temple of the soul,

Now caught by retribution in the mesh

Of one poor piece of perishable flesh—

What baser demon of the pit would buy

With all your ruin’d aspirations?

Lucifer (within). I!—

Cipr. What! The very winds and waters

Hear, and answer to the cry

She is deaf to!—Better thrown