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Soul-sick'ning thought! wherever Reason gleams,
Darting her light to scare a bigot's dreams,
Throughout the historic page, stern truth it stands,
Such Christian teachers have the bloodiest hands!
In all hell's mischiefs there's a bliss that springs
Grateful alike to priests and tyrant kings;
To see young Freedom in the flames expire
Monarchs themselves have leaped to light the fire,
And monks and fanatics with hearts of stones
Sung hallelujahs to his dying moans!
But Time omnipotent saw craft decay,
for Anno Domini was growing grey;
And Harry's lust combined with Luther's spite
Destroyed the first and brought man's second night:
When the great German potentates protested,

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