The ministering angels then will answer and will say,
The while they veil for awe their faces—“These are they
Who did not know thy law while living, and for this
They lie in hell remote from glory and from bliss;
They cry Amen from thence.”—But he will of his grace
Compassion take on them and on their mournful case,
Will give the golden key from heaven’s crystal floors,
Which opens with a touch hell’s forty thousand doors,
To Michael, mighty prince:—but he will fly amain,
On mercy’s errand swift, with all the angelic train.