For Blindness is the first-born of Excess.

When all good angels left the world, ye stayed,

Stung with strange passions, and debased

By mortal feelings for a mortal maid:

But ye are pardoned thus far, and replaced

With your pure equals. Hence! away! away!

Or stay,

And lose Eternity by that delay!

Aza.

And thou! if Earth be thus forbidden