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The Litanies of Satan lyrics by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe

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!

You who know everything, king of the underworld
The familiar healer of human distress

O Satan, take pity on my long misery!

You who teach even lepers, accursed pariahs
Through love itself the taste for Paradise

O Satan, take pity on my long misery!

O you who on Death, your ancient true lover
Engendered Hope – that lunatic charmer!

O Satan, take pity on my long misery!

You who grant the condemned that calm, proud look
That damns a whole people crowding the scaffold

O Satan, take pity on my long misery!

You who know in what corners of envious countries
A jealous God hid those stones that are precious

O Satan, take pity on my long misery!

You whose clear eye knows the deep caches
Where, buried, the race of metals slumbers

O Satan, take pity on my long misery!

You whose huge hands hide the precipice
From the sleepwalker on the sky-scraper’s cliff

O Satan, take pity on my long misery!

You who make magically supple the bones
Of the drunkard, out late, who’s trampled by horses

O Satan, take pity on my long misery!

You who taught us to mix saltpetre with sulphur
To console the frail human being who suffers

O Satan, take pity on my long misery!

You who set your mark, o subtle accomplice
On the forehead of Croesus, the vile and pitiless

O Satan, take pity on my long misery!

You who set in the hearts and eyes of young girls
The cult of the wound, adoration of rags

O Satan, take pity on my long misery!

The exile’s staff, the light of invention
Confessor to those to be hanged, to conspirators

O Satan, take pity on my long misery!

Father, adopting those whom God the Father
Drove in dark anger from the earthly paradise

O Satan, take pity on my long misery!