[00:37.912]Lucifer:
[00:37.912]Ye speedy spirits, stay our chariot now,
[00:42.144]God’s Morning-star in its full zenith stands;
[00:46.412]Its height is reached; and lo! the moment comes
[00:51.007]When Lucifer must set before this star,
[00:55.946]This double star that rises from below
[01:00.610]And seeks the way above, to tarnish Heaven with earthy glow.
[01:08.216]No more should ye adorn
[01:10.064]Proud Lucifer’s apparel with glittering crowns,
[01:15.322]Nor gild his forehead with the glorious dawn
[01:19.908]Of morning-star, to which archangels kneel.
[01:25.772]Another splendor sweeps into the light of god,
[01:29.453]Whose radiance drowns our vaunted glory.
[01:35.889]As to the eyes of man, below, the sun,
[01:40.005]By day, puts out the stars.
[01:42.337]The shades of night
[01:44.207]Bedim the Angels and the suns of Heaven
[01:48.108]For man has won the heart of the Most High,
[01:50.892]Within his new-created Paradise.
[01:55.244]He is the friend of Heaven.
[01:57.302]Our slavery even mow begins.
[02:00.344]Go hence, rejoice and serve
[02:03.898]And honor this new race like servile slaves.
[02:07.028]For god was man created;
[02:09.796]We, for him.
[02:11.130]Let then the Angels bend their necks beneath his feet.
[02:15.124]Let each one now upon him wait
[02:17.472]And bear him even onto the highest thrones on hands or wings:
[02:22.360]For our inheritance shall pass to him,
[02:25.642]The chosen son of god.
[02:27.917]We, the first-born, shall suffer in this Realm.
[02:32.548]The son born on that sixth day, and made
[02:36.476]In the image of the Father, shall attain
[02:39.253]The crown. And rightly unto him was given
[02:42.235]The mighty scepter, which shall cause even us,
[02:45.836]The once first born, to tremble and to shake
[02:53.169]Here holds no contradiction now: ye heard
[02:56.585]What Gabriel’s trump spake at the golden port?
[03:19.123]Beelzebub:
[03:19.123]O! Stadholder of god’s superior powers,
[03:22.504]Alas! We hear too well, amid the praise
[03:25.722]Of choristers, a discord that makes sad
[03:28.947]The feast eterne. The charge of Gabriel is clear
[03:33.578]It needs no tongue of Cherubim to unfold its sense.
[03:40.557]Nor was there need to send Apollion below, a nearer view
[03:44.566]To gain of Adam’s realm beneath the moon.
[04:02.004]The massive gate of Heaven stands ajar for Adam’s seed.
[04:06.153]An earth-worm that has crawled out of the dust
[04:09.490]Out of a clod of clay defies thy power
[04:13.070]Thou shalt yet man behold o’er thee exalted
[04:16.889]So that thou shalt fall
[04:21.107]Lucifer:
[04:21.107]That shall I thwart, if in my power it be
[04:29.704]That shall I thwart, if in my power it be
[04:38.333]That shall I thwart, if in my power it be
[05:10.823]Beelzebub:
[05:10.823]Who is their center and circumference
[05:14.004]What clearer proof need we to see that God
[05:16.348]Shall glorify mankind, and us degrade
[05:44.744]For we are born to serve, and man, to rule
[05:53.533]Lucifer:
[05:53.533]That shall I thwart, if in my power it be
[06:00.549]That shall I thwart, if in my power it be
[06:09.211]That shall I thwart, if in my power it be
[06:19.133]That shall I thwart, if in my power it be