Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Devil's Walk (Letter version)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Devil's Walk [Letter version]
01 The Devil went out a walking one day,
02 Being tired of staying in Hell
03 He dressed himself in his Sunday array
04 And the reason that he was drest so gay
05 Was to cunningly pry, whether under the sky
06 The affairs of earth went well
07 He poked his hot nose into corners so small
08 One wd. think that the innocents there
09 Poor creatures were just doing nothing at all
10 But settling some dress or arranging some ball
11 The Devil saw deeper there
12 He peeped in each hole, to each chamber stole
13 His promising live-stock to view
14 Grinning applause, he just shews his claws
15 And Satan laughed in the mirth of his soul
16 That they started with fright, from his ugly sight
17 Whose works they delighted to do
18 A Parson with whom in the house of prayer
19 The devil sate side by side
20 Bawled out that if the devil were
21 His presence he couldnt abide, trick
22 Ha ha thought old Nick, thats a very stale ^
23 For without the Devil, ô favorite of evil
24 In thy carriage thou wouldst not ride
25 He saw the Devil a viper slay
26 Under his brief-covered table
27 It reminded the Devil marvellously
28 Of the story of Cain and Abel
29 Satan next saw a Brainless King
30 In a house as hot as his own
31 Many imps he saw near there on the wi[ng]
32 They flapped the black pennon and twiste[d]
the sting
33Close to the very throne
34 Ah! Ah cried Satan the pasture is ...
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