On heaven's ethereal plain, <br />Where hostile rage ambition first begun, <br />When the arch rebel strove himself to reign <br />And take Jehovah's throne. <br />Swift to the fight the seraphim <br />On floods of pride were seen to swim, <br />And bold defy the power supreme, <br />And thus their God disown. <br /> <br /> <br />High on a dome of state, <br />From azure fields he cast his daring eye, <br />Licentious trains his magazines await, <br />At whose command they fly. <br />The gloom excludes celestial charms, <br />When all the angels rush to arms, <br />Heaven shakes beneath the vast alarms, <br />And earth begins to sigh. <br /> <br /> <br />Eternal mountains move, <br />And seven-fold thunders rock the hills below, <br />While starry throngs desert the worlds above, <br />Beneath Jehovah's brow. <br />O Lucifer, thou morning son, <br />To glut thy pride what hast thou done? <br />Sing, O ye heavens, the plague is gone, <br />And weep, thou earth, for woe. <br /> <br /> <br />Creation felt the fall, <br />And trembling nature heav'd a dismal groan; <br />For that rebellion brought her into thrall, <br />She must her fate bemoan; <br />See angels fall no more to rise, <br />And feed the worm that never dies; <br />No ear of grace can hear their cries, <br />And hoarse lamenting tone. <br /> <br /> <br />Weak nature lay exposed, <br />And felt the wound in pleasing hate conceal'd; <br />And, void of fear, the secret charm disclosed <br />Which ev'ry ill reveal'd. <br />The venom struck through ev'ry vein, <br />And every creature felt the pain; <br />But undefiled a lamb was slain, <br />By which the wound was heal'd.<br /><br />George Moses Horton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pride-in-heaven/
