Where ignorance and error, sin and crime,
And hellish spirits dark for ever dwell
With all who in the bonds of slavery
Lead deathly lives as creatures of the world—
The wretched earth-worms of that bounden sphere,
Which is the only Hell mankind can know!
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The night is now far spent, and in the sky
From out a dark blue setting there hath shone
In ages past, as now, full many a star