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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409699" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Demoniac of Gadara</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A GADARENE.<br>He hath escaped, hath plucked his chains asunder,<br>And broken his fetters; always night and day<br>Is in the mountains here, and in the tombs,<br>Crying aloud, and cutting himself with stones,<br>Exceeding fierce, so that no man can tame him! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE DEMONIAC from above, unseen.<br>O Aschmedai! O Aschmedai, have pity!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A GADARENE.<br>Listen! It is his voice! Go warn the people<br>Just landing from the lake! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE DEMONIAC.<br>O Aschmedai!<br>Thou angel of the bottomless pit, have pity!<br>It was enough to hurl King Solomon,<br>On whom be peace! two hundred leagues away<br>Into the country, and to make him scullion<br>In the kitchen of the King of Maschkemen!<br>Why dost thou hurl me here among these rocks,<br>And cut me with these stones?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A GADARENE.<br>He raves and mutters<br>He knows not what.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE DEMONIAC, appearing from a tomb among the rocks.<br>The wild cock Tarnegal<br>Singeth to me, and bids me to the banquet,<br>Where all the Jews shall come; for they have slain<br>Behemoth the great ox, who daily cropped<br>A thousand hills for food, and at a draught<br>Drank up the river Jordan, and have slain<br>The huge Leviathan, and stretched his skin<br>Upon the high walls of Jerusalem,<br>And made them shine from one end of the world<br>Unto the other; and the fowl Barjuchne,<br>Whose outspread wings eclipse the sun, and make<br>Midnight at noon o'er all the continents!<br>And we shall drink the wine of Paradise<br>From Adam's cellars. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A GADARENE.<br>O thou unclean spirit!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE DEMONIAC, hurling down a stone.<br>This is the wonderful Barjuchne's egg,<br>That fell out of her nest, and broke to pieces<br>And swept away three hundred cedar-trees,<br>And threescore villages!--Rabbi Eliezer,<br>How thou didst sin there in that seaport town<br>When thou hadst carried safe thy chest of silver<br>Over the seven rivers for her sake!<br>I too have sinned beyond the reach of pardon.<br>Ye hills and mountains, pray for mercy on me!<br>Ye stars and planets, pray for mercy on me!<br>Ye sun and moon, oh pray for mercy on me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHRISTUS and his disciples pass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A GADARENE.<br>There is a man here of Decapolis,<br>Who hath an unclean spirit; so that none<br>Can pass this way. He lives among the tombs<br>Up there upon the cliffs, and hurls down stones<br>On those who pass beneath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHRISTUS.<br>Come out of him,<br>Thou unclean spirit!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE DEMONIAC.<br>What have I to do<br>With thee, thou Son of God? Do not torment us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHRISTUS.<br>What is thy name?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE DEMONIAC.<br>Legion; for we are many.<br>Cain, the first murderer; and the King Belshazzar,<br>And Evil Merodach of Babylon,<br>And Admatha, the death-cloud, prince of Persia<br>And Aschmedai the angel of the pit,<br>And many other devils. We are Legion.<br>Send us not forth beyond Decapolis;<br>Command us not to go into the deep!<br>There is a herd of swine here in the pastures,<br>Let us go into them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHRISTUS.<br>Come out of him,<br>Thou unclean spirit!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A GADARENE.<br>See how stupefied,<br>How motionless he stands! He cries no more;<br>He seems bewildered and in silence stares<br>As one who, walking in his sleep, awakes<br>And knows not where he is, and looks about him,<br>And at his nakedness, and is ashamed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE DEMONIAC.<br>Why am I here alone among the tombs?<br>What have they done to me, that I am naked?<br>Ah, woe is me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHRISTUS.<br>Go home unto thy friends<br>And tell them how great things the Lord hath done<br>For thee, and how He had compassion on thee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A SWINEHERD, running.<br>The herds! the herd! O most unlucky day!<br>They were all feeding quiet in the sun,<br>When suddenly they started, and grew savage<br>As the wild boars of Tabor, and together<br>Rushed down a precipice into the sea!<br>They are all drowned!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">PETER.<br>Thus righteously are punished<br>The apostate Jews, that eat the flesh of swine,<br>And broth of such abominable things!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">GREEKS OF GADARA.<br>We sacrifice a sow unto Demeter<br>At the beginning of harvest and another<br>To Dionysus at the vintage-time.<br>Therefore we prize our herds of swine, and count them<br>Not as unclean, but as things consecrate<br>To the immortal gods. O great magician,<br>Depart out of our coasts; let us alone,<br>We are afraid of thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">PETER.<br>Let us depart;<br>For they that sanctify and purify<br>Themselves in gardens, eating flesh of swine.<br>And the abomination, and the mouse,<br>Shall be consumed together, saith the Lord!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><div class=q>
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He hath escaped, hath plucked his chains asunder,
And broken his fetters; always night and day
Is in the mountains here, and in the tombs,
Crying aloud, and cutting himself with stones,
Exceeding fierce, so that no man can tame him! 

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