“Here reigned the fierce Shalmazar, giant king,
Sprung from a mixture of infernal strain,
His sire, the power of lewdness, Belial named,
Who, amorous of an earth-born beauty, won
Astoreth, princess of Gal-Cainah’s realm,
To his unhallowed love.”
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What the meaning of the author is in the line above italicised, we challenge all Christendom to discover. But even no sense at all, is better than mere verbiage, or coarse or improbable metaphor, as thus:
“Repose at last, where it is ever found
By weary mortals, in the peaceful grave,