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 Be frustrate, all ye stratagems of Hell, And devilish machinations come to nought.
 * So they in Heav'n their Odes and Vigils tun'd:

Mean while the Son of God, who yet some days Lodg'd in Bethabara where John baptiz'd, Musing and much revolving in his brest, How best the mighty work he might begin Of Saviour to mankind, and which way first Publish his God-like office now mature, One day forth walk'd alone, the Spirit leading; And his deep thoughts, the better to converse With solitude, till far from track of men, Thought following thought, and step by step led on, He entred now the bordering Desert wild, And with dark shades and rocks environ'd round, His holy Meditations thus pursu'd.
 * O what a multitude of thoughts at once

Awakn'd in me swarm, while I consider What from within I feel my self, and hear Rh