&nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspSole Positive of Night!
       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspAntipathist of Light!
Fate's only essence! primal scorpion rod—
The one permitted opposite of God!—
Condenséd blackness and abysmal storm
       &nbsp       &nbspCompacted to one sceptre
       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspArms the Grasp enorm—
       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspThe Intercepter—
The Substance that still casts the shadow Death!—
       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspThe Dragon foul and fell—
       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspThe unrevealable,
And hidden one, whose breath
Gives wind and fuel to the fires of Hell!
       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspAh! sole despair
       &nbsp       &nbsp      Of both th' eternities in Heaven!
Sole interdict of all-bedewing prayer,
       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspThe all-compassionate!
       &nbsp       &nbspSave to the Lampads Seven
Reveal'd to none of all th' Angelic State,
       &nbsp       &nbspSave to the Lampads Seven,
       &nbsp       &nbspThat watch the throne of Heaven!