{"id":2780,"date":"2015-09-19T19:13:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T19:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2015-09-19T19:13:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T19:13:56","slug":"the-litanies-of-satan-by-charles-baudelaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/?p=2780","title":{"rendered":"The Litanies Of Satan by Charles Baudelaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/litanies1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2783\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/litanies1-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"litanies1\" width=\"497\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/litanies1-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/litanies1.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>O you, the most knowing, and loveliest of Angels,<br \/>\na god fate betrayed, deprived of praises,<\/p>\n<p>O Satan, take pity on my long misery!<br \/>\nO, Prince of exile to whom wrong has been done, who, vanquished, always recovers more strongly,<\/p>\n<p>O Satan, take pity on my long misery!<\/p>\n<p>You who know everything, king of the Underworld,<br \/>\nthe familiar healer of human distress,<\/p>\n<p>O Satan, take pity on my long misery!<br \/>\nYou who teach even lepers, accursed pariahs, through love itself the taste for Paradise,<br \/>\nO Satan, take pity on my long misery!<\/p>\n<p>O you who on Death, your ancient true lover,<br \/>\nengendered Hope \u2013 that lunatic charmer!<\/p>\n<p>O Satan, take pity on my long misery!<\/p>\n<p>You who grant the condemned that calm, proud look<br \/>\nthat damns a whole people crowding the scaffold,<\/p>\n<p>O Satan, take pity on my long misery!<\/p>\n<p>You who know in what corners of envious countries<br \/>\na jealous God hid those stones that are precious,<\/p>\n<p>O Satan, take pity on my long misery!<\/p>\n<p>You whose clear eye knows the deep caches<br \/>\nwhere, buried, the race of metals slumbers,<br \/>\nO Satan, take pity on my long misery!<\/p>\n<p>You whose huge hands hide the precipice,<br \/>\nfrom the sleepwalker on the sky-scraper\u2019s cliff,<\/p>\n<p>O Satan, take pity on my long misery!<\/p>\n<p>You who make magically supple the bones<br \/>\nof the drunkard, out late, who\u2019s trampled by horses,<\/p>\n<p>O Satan, take pity on my long misery!<\/p>\n<p>You who taught us to mix saltpetre with sulphur<br \/>\nto console the frail human being who suffers,<\/p>\n<p>O Satan, take pity on my long misery!<\/p>\n<p>You who set your mark, o subtle accomplice,<br \/>\non the forehead of Croesus, the vile and pitiless,<\/p>\n<p>O Satan, take pity on my long misery!<\/p>\n<p>You who set in the hearts and eyes of young girls<br \/>\nthe cult of the wound, adoration of rags,<\/p>\n<p>O Satan, take pity on my long misery!<\/p>\n<p>The exile\u2019s staff, the light of invention,<br \/>\nconfessor to those to be hanged, to conspirators,<\/p>\n<p>O Satan, take pity on my long misery!<\/p>\n<p>Father, adopting those whom God the Father<br \/>\ndrove in dark anger from the earthly paradise,<\/p>\n<p>O Satan, take pity on my long misery!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; O you, the most knowing, and loveliest of Angels, a god fate betrayed, deprived of praises, O Satan, take pity on my long misery! O, Prince of exile to whom wrong has been done, who, vanquished, always recovers more strongly, O Satan, take pity on my long misery! 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