"Who hast broken His Commandment in the day He set thee free,
⁠"Who grindest for thy greed,
⁠"Man's belly-pinch and need;
"And the blood of Man to filthy usury!"

Then softly answered Dives where the money-changers sit:—
"My refuge is Our Master, O My Master in the Pit;
⁠"But behold all Earth is laid
⁠"In the peace which I have made,
"And behold I wait on thee to trouble it!"

Then angrily turned Satan, and about the Seas he fled,
To shake the new-sown peoples with insult, doubt, and dread;
⁠But for all the sleight he used
⁠There was never squadron loosed,
And the brands he flung flew dying and fell dead.