Peter Bell the Third by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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45. At conversazioni--balls-- Conventicles--and drawing-rooms-- Courts of law--committees--calls Of a morning--clubs--book-stalls-- _215 Churches--masquerades--and tombs. 15. And this is Hell--and in this smother All are damnable and damned; Each one damning, damns the other; They are damned by one another, _220 By none other are they damned. 16. 'Tis a lie to say, 'God damns'! Where was Heaven's Attorney General When they first gave out such flams? Let there be an end of shams, _225 They are mines of poisonous mineral. 17. Statesmen damn themselves to be Cursed; and lawyers damn their souls To the auction of a fee; Churchmen damn themselves to see _230 God's sweet love in burning coals. |
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