Satan’s Petition
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Once I Saw in a vision
Satan complaining to the Almighty:
‘Man, that handful of’ dust,
Is a firebrand, indeed.
Lean in soul, and fat in body,
Dressed in fancy clothes;
With a heart ebbing away;
Ripe and cunning in reason.
Thou knowest not,
The houris of heaven
Are sad at the thought
Of heaven’s desolation.
The men of politics
Have usurped my place forever;
And I am not needed
On the earth any more.’
