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QUOTATION:Seraphs and saints with one great voice
Welcomed that soul that knew not fear.
Amazed to find it could rejoice,
Hell raised a hoarse, half-human cheer.
ATTRIBUTION:John Davidson (1857–1909), Scottish poet. A Ballad of Hell (l. 93–96).

MoBrPo. Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
 
 
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