Lucifer:
Ye speedy spirits, stay our chariot now,
God’s Morning-star in its full zenith stands;
Its height is reached; and lo! the moment comes
When Lucifer must set before this star,
This double star that rises from below
And seeks the way above, to tarnish Heaven with earthy glow.
No more should ye adorn
Proud Lucifer’s apparel with glittering crowns,
Nor gild his forehead with the glorious dawn
Of morning-star, to which archangels kneel.
Another splendor sweeps into the light of god,
Whose radiance drowns our vaunted glory.
As to the eyes of man, below, the sun,
By day, puts out the stars.
The shades of night
Bedim the Angels and the suns of Heaven
For man has won the heart of the Most High,
Within his new-created Paradise.
He is the friend of Heaven.
Our slavery even mow begins.
Go hence, rejoice and serve
And honor this new race like servile slaves.
For god was man created;
We, for him.
Let then the Angels bend their necks beneath his feet.
Let each one now upon him wait
And bear him even onto the highest thrones on hands or wings:
For our inheritance shall pass to him,
The chosen son of god.
We, the first-born, shall suffer in this Realm.
The son born on that sixth day, and made
In the image of the Father, shall attain
The crown. And rightly unto him was given
The mighty scepter, which shall cause even us,
The once first born, to tremble and to shake
Here holds no contradiction now: ye heard
What Gabriel’s trump spake at the golden port?
Beelzebub:
O! Stadholder of god’s superior powers,
Alas! We hear too well, amid the praise
Of choristers, a discord that makes sad
The feast eterne. The charge of Gabriel is clear
It needs no tongue of Cherubim to unfold its sense.
Nor was there need to send Apollion below, a nearer view
To gain of Adam’s realm beneath the moon.
The massive gate of Heaven stands ajar for Adam’s seed.
An earth-worm that has crawled out of the dust
Out of a clod of clay defies thy power
Thou shalt yet man behold o’er thee exalted
So that thou shalt fall
Lucifer:
That shall I thwart, if in my power it be
That shall I thwart, if in my power it be
That shall I thwart, if in my power it be
Beelzebub:
Who is their center and circumference
What clearer proof need we to see that God
Shall glorify mankind, and us degrade
For we are born to serve, and man, to rule
Lucifer:
That shall I thwart, if in my power it be
That shall I thwart, if in my power it be
That shall I thwart, if in my power it be
That shall I thwart, if in my power it be