On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. 
 Tired of his dark dominion, swung the fiend 
 Above the rolling ball in cloud part screened, 
 Where sinners hugged their specter of repose. 
 Poor prey to his hot fit of pride were those. 
 And now upon his western wing he leaned, 
 Now his huge bulk o’er Afric’s sands careened, 
 Now the black planet shadowed Arctic snows. 
 Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars 
 With memory of the old revolt from Awe, 
 He reached a middle height, and at the stars,