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655.

[Not for the wretched sons of men]

Prepared for the devil and his angels. —xxv. 41.

Not for the wretched sons of men
Was Tophet first prepared,
Intruders into hellish pain,
They snatch the fiends' reward:
If just, as well as good, Thou art,
Thy vengeance they require,
And force Thee, Lord, to say, “Depart
Into eternal fire!”