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 Darkens in another's night,

And accusing voices say:

Guile may lightly vanquish odds;

But though mortals pay the price

And accept the sacrifice,

Treason's hateful to the gods,

Delilah!"

Samson!—bowing reverent knee

Unto Israel's God and thine—

Did'st thou think I loved not mine?

Unto him I yielded thee!

Yet—O mighty in thy fall!—

Groping still thy God to find,

Bond and bound, bereft and blind,—

Happier thou than she they call

Delilah!