shim changmin

1020 years old

vampyre

high councellor

christian priest and mortician

biual

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so many plagues displayed, and so malign amid the most dismal swarm were running people and terrified, hopeless of hiding-hole or heliotrope. they had their hands with serpents tied behind: these through the lions fastened their tail and head, and were entwined in front. and lo, a snake darted at one who was close by our side, and, where the neck is to the shoulders joined, transfixed him. ever was an o or i so quickly writ, as he took fire and burned, and falling, must be all to ashes turned: and aafter he was thus upon the ground unmade, the ash regathered of itself, and suddenly into the selfsame man returned: so, it is solemnly declared by the great sages the the phoenix dies, and then, when near to her five-hundredth year she draws, is born again. she, living, feeds on neither herb nor grain, but only tears of incense, and amomum; and her shroud, at last, is nard and myrrh. and as is he who falls, and knows not how, by demon-power which drags him to the earth, or else by force of other stoppage which doth bind the man, who , when he rises, gazes round about, wholly bewildered by the grreat distress that he has undergone, and gazing, sighs-- o power of god, how rigorous it is, that showers such blows in vengeance!" divine inferno, lines 94-124.