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Hell<br />

At Joveʹs goodness Satanus sneers disgust,<br />

Persudes war‐loving angels to rebel,<br />

Marches them down beneath the planetʹs crust<br />

To banish Pluto from the depths of Hell;<br />

Locust conquest,<br />

Round Pandemonium<br />

From Grecia they would wrest faded imperium.<br />

Canto 2<br />

The Birth of Liberty & the second rise of Mars<br />

As big fleas attract little fleas,<br />

Sat on their backs to bite ʹem,<br />

& fleas even smaller than these<br />

Find them & then alight ʹem,<br />

So, in ever‐dwindling degrees,<br />

On ad infinitum,<br />

Evil pulses thro gods, thro priests, thro men,<br />

Thro animals & back to fleas again.<br />

More fallen angels fell thro air<br />

& left those realms of bliss,<br />

Descend to where his kindred share<br />

The cinder‐swept abyss,<br />

Slow‐filling with the sinful, dreadful in sulphuric hiss.<br />

Hades<br />

Shall we renounce our ancient friends the gods<br />

Powerful, undemanding, but unknown<br />

To the unyielding steel we fiercely breed.<br />

Rainer Maria Rilke

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