Evil and Good, as twisted snakes, untwine.

LXXI

But to his roof had fled pale palsied Fear,

The child of Death and Night, but fathered there,

And nursed by Ignorance beside the hearth

To cloud his house with all her mystic gear.

LXXII

Demon and fetish painted she to scare,

And veils against the light did weave and wear;

Yea, Art and Thought, man’s firstlings, fain would bind