A POET once, whose tuneful soul, perchance,
Too fondly leaned toward sin, and sin’s romance,
On a long vanished eve, so calm and clear
None could have deemed an evil spirit near,
Brooding ill deeds, was summoned by a writ,
In the due form of Hades, to the Pit;
A red-nosed, red-haired fiend the summoner,
About whose horrent head his locks did stir
Like half-waked serpents! “Well,” in wrath and woe,
The poet cried, “whom the De’il drives must go,
Whate’er the goal! Yet much I wish that he
Had sent as guide some nobler fiend than thee,
Thou hideous varlet!”
“Come, keep cool, I say,”
Counselled the other sagely, “While you may!”
Whereon, as half in scorn and half in ire,
He haled the poet to the realm of fire.
Arrived in bounds Had
(Paul Hamilton Hayne)
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