At this good news, so great The Devil's pleasure grew, That… - Robert Southey

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At this good news, so great
The Devil's pleasure grew,
That, with a joyful swish, he rent
The hole where his tail came through.

Robert Southey

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Robert Southey (August 12 1774 – March 21 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate.

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[W]onder is from surprise; and surprise ceases upon experience.

He passed a cottage with a double coach-house,
A cottage of gentility;
And he owned with a grin
That his favorite sin
Is pride that apes humility.

Oh, when a mother meets on high
The babe she lost in infancy,
Hath she not then for pains and fears,
The day of woe, the watchful night,
For all her sorrow, all her tears,
An over-payment of delight?

At this good news, so great The Devil's pleasure grew, That, with a joyful swish, he rent The hole where his tail came through. - Robert Southey

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