That justice over hate should not prevail.
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Then Psyche said ‘This is the biting flood
Of black Cocytus, silver’d with the gleam
Of souls, that guilty of another’s blood
Are pent therein, and as they swim they scream.
The hornèd snakes of hell, upon the mount
Enchain’d, for ever guard the livid fount:
And but the Fates can grant to touch the stream.’
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