Ne Plus Ultra

       &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!