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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!