Mephistopheles.
Ay! follow but the good old text, and the serpent, my sworn brother, You'll rue your likeness to the Lord, I^donbt, some day or other. 111. A Cathedral. Mass.— -Organ and Chaunting.— -Margaret among several People, an Evil Spirit behind her. Evil Spirit. How different, Margaret, was it once with thee, When thou, in guileless purity of soul, Here at the altar kneeledst ! — Out of the Mass-book, snatched in sudden haste, Thy prayers were pattered. Thy childish pleasures half, And Heaven half at heart ! Margaret! How stands it with thee now ? ' In thy heart What misdeed? Dost thou pray for thy mother's soul, who sleeps, Through thee, the long, long sleep that knows no waking? Whose blood' is at thy door ? Under thy heart already Stirs not the proof of sin, Torturing itself and thee With evil-boding presence ?
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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue I, 30 April 1842, Page 32
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139Mephistopheles. Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue I, 30 April 1842, Page 32
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