XIII + 

Satan Speaks + 

I am the Lord your God: even he that made + 

Material things, and all these signs arrayed + 

Above you and have set beneath the race + 

Of mankind, who forget their Father’s face + 

And even while they drink my light of day + 

Dream of some other gods and disobey + 

My warnings, and despise my holy laws, + 

Even tho’ their sin shall slay them. For which cause, + 

Dreams dreamed in vain, a never-filled desire + 

And in close flesh a spiritual fire, + 

A thirst for good their kind shall not attain, + 

A backward cleaving to the beast again. + 

A loathing for the life that I have given, + 

A haunted, twisted soul for ever riven + 

Between their will and mine⁠—such lot I give + 

While still in my despite the vermin live. + 

They hate my world! Then let that other God + 

Come from the outer spaces glory-shod, + 

And from this castle I have built on Night + 

Steal forth my own thought’s children into light, + 

If such an one there be. But far away + 

He walks the airy fields of endless day, + 

And my rebellious sons have called Him long + 

And vainly called. My order still is strong + 

And like to me nor second none I know. + 

Wither the mammoth went this creature too shall go. + 