Ne Plus Ultra

Sole Positive of Night! Antipathist of Light! Fate’s only essence! primal scorpion rod-- The one permitted opposite of God!-- Condensed blackness and abysmal storm Compacted to one sceptre Arms the Grasp enorm-- The Interceptor-- The Substance that still casts the shadow Death!-- The Dragon foul and fell-- The unrevealable, And hidden one, whose breath Gives wind and fuel to the fires of Hell!-- Ah! sole despair Of both the eternities in Heaven! Sole interdict of all-bedewing prayer, The all-compassionate! Save to the Lampads Seven Reveal’d to none of all the Angelic State, Save to the Lampads Seven, That watch the throne of Heaven!

?1826.