Once, wide awake, she menaced, at arms' length

Waved away something—"Never again with you!

My soul is mine, my body is my soul's:

You and I are divided ever more

In soul and body: get you gone!" Then I—

"Why, in my whole life I have never prayed!

Oh, if the God, that only can, would help!

Am I his priest with power to cast out fiends?

Let God arise and all his enemies

Be scattered!" By morn, there was peace, no sigh