Angels and Women (1924)

GREATER CHANGE 179upon which hang the fate of Eternity, I couldhate you as I hate the weak race to whichyour sensual bodies are enslaved l Drivelingidiots, leave your women and banqueting[Zaradis and his force have been forced to flee.Up and away l Unless you act at once withmighty vigor, all is lost! lost!! lost!!!’"Without waiting to reprove the presumptuousZorabah, Satanas, with all the otherDevas, sprang from the table, seized theirarmor, and exchanging fearful words andtokens, rushed forth. The ladies conveyedthe queen from the hall before I could gainaccess to her." While Aldeth yet spake, apiercing scream rang out through the nowempty corridors, a cry of mortal anguish.Startled from the paralyzed conditioninto which I had fallen, I flew along thehalls, followed closely by the affrightedAldeth, the song of the Angels resoundingin memory--"Weep--for the Moon’s soft rayPaleth ere morn."