IX

She whirled, she twirled, the mock-priest grinned,

And quickly his mask unriddled;

’Twas Adrian! loud his old laughter dinned;

Then he seized a fiddle, and fiddled.

X

He fiddled, he glowed with the bottomless fire,

Like Sathanas in feature:

All through me he fiddled a wolfish desire

To dance with that bright creature.

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