And those who eat the fruit;

Of creeping things, that drag their slime

Into God’s chosen places,

And knowledge leading into crime

Before the angels’ faces;

Of lands, from Nineveh to Spain,

That have bowed beneath his sway,

And men who did his work, from Cain

To Viscount Castlereagh!

Thomas Kibble Hervey.
From “The Devil’s Progress.”