| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Lucifer in Starlight |
| | | George Meredith (1828–1909) |
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| ON a starr’d night Prince Lucifer uprose. | |
| Tir’d of his dark dominion swung the fiend | |
| Above the rolling ball in cloud part screen’d, | |
| Where sinners hugg’d their spectre of repose. | |
| Poor prey to his hot fit of pride were those. | 5 |
| And now upon his Western wing he lean’d, | |
| Now his huge bulk o’er Africa careen’d, | |
| Now the black planet shadow’d Arctic snows. | |
| Soaring through wider zones that prick’d his scars | |
| With memory of the old revolt from Awe, | 10 |
| He reach’d a middle height, and at the stars, | |
| Which are the brain of heaven, he look’d, and sank. | |
| Around the ancient track march’d, rank on rank, | |
| The army of unalterable law. | |
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