“Thou that hast seen in darkness and canst bring to light
The gems a jealous God has hidden from our sight,

Satan, have pity upon me in my deep distress!

Thou to whom all the secret arsenals are known
Where iron, where gold and silver, slumber, locked in stone,

Satan have pity upon me in my deep distress!”

—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), from The Litanies of Satan, translated by Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1936.