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Rh Chanting Obeah's praise and potency, With sacrifices of a hornless goat; We hail and celebrate the crownéd snake, And, worshipping, adore the powers of Ill! And many of your grave, God-fearing folk Will fare with us into the forest dim. Lean Madam Hemingway, the Deacon's wife, With other matrons as demurely famed, Even the Parsonwhispermay be there, With many Sabbath-minded of his flock Who met the Black Man in the Cedar Woods, To sign their name upon that book of his, And Indian Pow-wows with their painted skins, Will join in our congenial devilry!

Here's for the Sabbath, but I will not sign!

You need not sign, for in your forehead, plain