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TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. LUCIFER, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seest thou me pass - swift with my angels out of heaven propelled
Last Line: From heaven down into chaos seest thou me pass, I say?]
Subject(s): Devil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


SEEST thou me pass—swift with my angels out of heaven propelled—
All stars and lightning in a fluid train?
Seest thou me pass, I say?

His brows, the Lord's, in heaven are glorious;
His eyes give light there, fashioning and beholding rapt all forms divine;
His mighty loins are plunged in night and shadow.
And I—
I am the lightning of the generations through them,
Seed of the worlds to be.

He is the Lord, in moment of creation, fixed everlasting,
The Universe entire—or little flower starred in ecstasy;
And I, orgasmic, fierce, His swift deliverance.

[Seest thou me pass—all stars and lightning in a fluid train?
From heaven down into chaos seest thou me pass, I say?]





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