Affection's gift, for the loving and the loved . lJ another drawetli near!U And anotlier voice I liear—- ..rve^^-^^ Saying— Mortal, look on me ! I am Infidelity!Man I make his God deny—Make liim tliink tlie trnth. a lie—I witk knowledge store liis mind,Only to deceive and blind :Make liis life a journey naught his path to a hope to pierce the gloom;Of the night beyond the him on the bed of kind angel ministreth !Yet I leave him not alone—?Oer his couch there leaneth one,One, the demon of despair !Ever with him, sitteth there. 24 THE DEMON PICTURE GALLERY.
Affection's gift, for the loving and the loved . lJ another drawetli near!U And anotlier voice I liear—- ..rve^^-^^ Saying— Mortal, look on me ! I am Infidelity!Man I make his God deny—Make liim tliink tlie trnth. a lie—I witk knowledge store liis mind,Only to deceive and blind :Make liis life a journey naught his path to a hope to pierce the gloom;Of the night beyond the him on the bed of kind angel ministreth !Yet I leave him not alone—?Oer his couch there leaneth one,One, the demon of despair !Ever with him, sitteth there. 24 THE DEMON PICTURE TUilN, another said, Look on me! the demondread, Who for ages held the soul,Subject to his fierce control;And in superstitions its celestial was but my the world in vengeance sent—On my reeking altars then,Slaughterd by their brethren,Myriads were doomd to their conscience, for their creed;While the sacred law of God,Neath mans impious foot was the law he held was a law of mine!Though my power hath felt do millions own my sway. THE DEMON riCTURE GALLERY ?lti ^..i£. SPAKE Intemperance—Mortalknow1 am thy worst, thy deadliest foe—For I alone have given birth,To half the miseries of earth!I put the knife in the murdrers of the incendiary light the brand,I fill the prisons, the gallows I feed,I fit the wretch for each damning deed;But more than this twere needless to my picture already has shown so hast heard us ohe by one;Mortal, now our task is done ! He ceased—and the d
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