Lucifer in Starlight

by George Meredith
On a starrd night Prince Lucifer uprose.
Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend
Above the roing ba in coud part screend!
"here sinners huggd their spectre of repose.
Poor prey to his hot fit of pride were those.
And now upon his western wing he eand!
#ow his huge buk oer Africs sands careend!
#ow the back panet shadowd Arctic snows.
$oaring through wider %ones that prickd his scars
"ith memory of the od revot from Awe!
&e reachd a midde height! and at the stars!
"hich are the brain of heaven! he ookd! and sank.
Around the ancient track marchd! rank on rank!
The army of unaterabe aw.