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Spirits there are inwrought with vilest clay - ZaunköniG - 01.07.2007 Spirits there are inwrought with vilest clay Which bear no God-like stamp of heavenly art, Whose envious instincts write with bitter smart Whene’er they fell some worthier nature’s sway. Ah! who so basely-born, so curst as they! – Poor reptiles! – whose envenomed passions dart Back to transfix their own corrupted heart, And speed the progress of the soul’s decay. We pity such, yet loathe them. Who can keep His honest scorn unspoken, should he see These human vipers strive their fangs to steep In the soul-blood of fame’s Nobility? Who but is glad when the swift lightnings leap Of withering wrath, to blast them utterly? |