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Poetic Lucubrations

Containing The Misanthrope and Other Effusions. By T. Gordon Hake

Hake, Thomas Gordon (1809-1895)

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VI.

In such an hour, invidious Cain,
Shudder'd to see a brother slain,
And own'd a murd'rer's dread!
In such an hour God's awful voice,
A curse pronounc'd in thunder's noise
On his devoted head!