On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. <br />Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend <br />Above the rolling ball in cloud part screened, <br />Where sinners hugged their spectre of repose. <br />Poor prey to his hot fit of pride were those. <br />And now upon his western wing he leaned, <br />Now his huge bulk o'er Afric's sands careened, <br />Now the black planet shadowed Arctic snows. <br />Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars <br />With memory of the old revolt from Awe, <br />He reached a middle height, and at the stars, <br />Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. <br />Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, <br />The army of unalterable law.<br /><br />George Meredith<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lucifer-in-starlight/
