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144 Then Satan said to Dives:—"Return again with me,

"Who hast broken His Commandment in the day He set thee free,

"Who grindest for thy greed,

"Man's belly-pinch and need;

"And the blood of Man to filthy usury!"

Then softly answered Dives where the money-changers sit:—

"My refuge is Our Master, O My Master in the Pit;

"But behold all Earth is laid

"In the peace which I have made,

"And behold I wait on thee to trouble it!"

Then angrily turned Satan, and about the Seas he fled,

To shake the new-sown peoples with insult, doubt, and dread;

But for all the sleight he used

There was never squadron loosed,

And the brands he flung flew dying and fell dead.