Ne Plus Ultra
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772 to 1834
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Sole Positive of Night!
Antipathist of Light!
Fate’s only essence! primal scorpion rod—
The one permitted opposite of God!—
Condenséd blackness and abysmal storm
Compacted to one scepter
the Grasp enorm—
The Intercepter—
The Substance that still the shadow Death!
The Dragon foul and fell—
The unrevealable,
And hidden one, whose breath
Gives wind and fuel the fires of Hell!
Ah! sole despair
Of both th’ eternities in Heaven!
Sole interdict of all-bedewing prayer,
The all-compassionate!
Save to the Lampads Seven
Reveal’d to none of th’ Angelic State,
Save to the Lampads Seven,
That the throne of Heaven!
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