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The Fall of Lucifer

Prime, Benjamin Young (1733-1791)

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Curse on thy malice! what a fiend thou art!
A fiend incarnate, of the worst degree,
To spit th' infernal venom of thy heart
At honest men, who never injur'd thee .

This and the preceding stanza were suggested by his spitefully procuring the arrest of a number of the peaceable inhabitants of the city of New-York.