And vaulted mouth emportalling the void,

He crouches like a passive sphinx before

Some temple gate, or, grinning, moves to grant

Thine entrance at the monarch’s golden door.


SATAN UNREPENTANT

Lost from those archangelic thrones that star,

Fadeless and fixed, heaven’s light of azure bliss;

Rejected of His splendour and depressed

Beyond the birth of the first sun, and lower