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XXXI.
REVENGE.
Search the long catalogue of wicked thingsThat appertain to man's degraded state,
In vain you'll search for one more fell than Hate,
Or one that darker trouble with it brings.
With thoughts of malice rankling in his breast,
The hater walks abroad a thing accursed,
Consuming with the passion he has nursed,
And prematurely banished from all rest.
His victim to a grave his hate may bring,
Or ingenuity some scheme impart,
Furthering the promptings of a fiendish heart,
With constant woes a brother's heart to wring.
God marks the hater, and with just decree
Metes his reward in earthly infamy.
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