Thou mayst—thou canst not enter in![Pg 26]

[Pg 26]

"Could I have found one single sign

Of life within thy sordid soul,

One kindling spark of Life Divine,

The flames of hell had not been thine.

Hence"—and he seal'd the Judgment scroll.

Down to the fires whose lurid light

Lick'd and blazoned the depths of hell,

Mocking red in the pitchy night,

Down, ever down, from out God's sight,

Down to the damned the Miser fell.

There in the haunts of deepest sin

Satan watched with his sombre eye.

The trembling Miser peered within,

He thought to find his kith and kin

Whose guilt condemned them too—to die.

He wandered round from place to place,

Then beat his breast with wondering moan,

For lo! of all the human race

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