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1884–1915

PRAYER

James Elroy Flecker

Satan, to thee be praise upon the Height Where thou wast king of old, and in the night Of Hell, where thou dost dream on silently. Grant that one day beneath the Knowledge-tree,

When it shoots forth to grace thy royal brow, My soul may sit, that cries upon thee now.

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