Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SAINT MICHAEL, by CHARLES WILLIAMS


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SAINT MICHAEL, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a motion within deity
Last Line: The twelve huge ships of the moving zodiac.
Subject(s): Michael, The Archangel; Religion; Saints; Michael, Saint; Theology


THERE was a motion within Deity,
And the first Seraph lived, saw, and became
One cry through all his nature and his name,—
Micha-el: Who is like God? Thence to be
Began the hierarchic mystery
Of spirit: where, though he be first in fame—
Goldenly-helmed; thrice winged, thrice ringed with flame—
Yet each of his Angels is hardly less than he.

But all his Angels and he, gathered into one
Fire, as a lantern high upon the mast
Of the Admiral's vessel, shine; and in their track,
With night-watch set and guards at every gun,
Float through the ocean of the unknown vast
The twelve huge ships of the moving Zodiac.





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