THERE was a motion within Deity, And the first Seraph lived, saw, and became One cry through all his nature and his name,— @3Micha-el: Who is like God?@1 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. |