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Rh And the carnage begun, when resistance is done,

And the fall of the vainly flying!

9.

Then he gazed on a town by besiegers taken,

Nor cared he who were winning;

But he saw an old maid, for years forsaken,

Get up and leave her spinning;

And she looked in her glass, and to one that did pass,

She said—"pray are the rapes beginning?"

10.

But the Devil has reached our cliffs so white,

And what did he there, I pray?

If his eyes were good, he but saw by night

What we see every day;

But he made a tour and kept a journal

Of all the wondrous sights nocturnal,

And he sold it in shares to the Men of the Row,

Who bid pretty well—but they cheated him, though!

11.

The Devil first saw, as he thought, the Mail,

Its coachman and his coat;

So instead of a pistol he cocked his tail,

And seized him by the throat;