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Your powers we dauntlessly pooh-pooh: A dire revenge will fall on you If you besiege Our high prestige (The word "prestige" is French).

Although our threats you now pooh-pooh, A dire revenge will fall on you, Should he besiege Your high prestige— (The word "prestige" is French.)

You needn't wait, Away you fly! Your threatened hate We thus defy!

We will not wait, We go sky-high! Our threatened hate You won't defy!

You needn't wait, Away you fly— Your threatened hate We won't defy!

We will not wait, We go, sky high, Our threatened hate You won't defy!

threaten ' with their wands. ' kneel as begging for mercy. ' implores ' to relent. He casts her from him, and she falls fainting into the arms of and.