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The bane of all that dread the Devil!
The bane of all that dread the Devil!
 Satan; so call him now, his former name
 Is heard no more in heaven.  
 Satan; so call him now, his former name
 Is heard no more in heaven. 
Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.
Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.
 Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here 
he comes in the likeness of read more 
 Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here 
he comes in the likeness of a Jew. 
When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.
When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.
 The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
 Are of imagination all compact.
  One sees more devils than read more 
 The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
 Are of imagination all compact.
  One sees more devils than vast hell can hold;
   That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,
    Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.
     The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
      Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
       And as imagination bodies forth
        The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
         Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
          A local habitation and a name. 
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.