Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.—Proverbs, xxii. 24, 25.

Warn all creatures from thee

Henceforth, lest that too heavenly form pretended

To hellish falsehood snare them.

Milton.

In the embattled plain

Though Death exults and claps his raven wings,

Yet reigns he not, even there, so absolute,

So merciless, as in yon frantic scenes

Of midnight revel and tumultuous mirth,