Sole Positive of Night!

Antipathist of Light! Fate's only essence! primal scorpion rod-- The one permitted opposite of God!-- Condenséd blackness and abysmal storm Compacted to one sceptre Arms the Grasp enorm-- The Intercepter-- The Substance that still casts the shadow Death!-- The Dragon foul and fell-- The unrevealable, And hidden one, whose breath Gives wind and fuel to the fires of Hell! Ah! sole despair Of both th' eternities in Heaven! Sole interdict of all-bedewing prayer, The all-compassionate! Save to the Lampads Seven Reveal'd to none of all th' Angelic State, Save to the Lampads Seven, That watch the throne of Heaven!

? 1826.