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<h2>LUCIFER IN STARLIGHT</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">On</span> 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.</p>
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