| Song | First Prince in Some Lower Court |
| Artist | H.E.R.R. |
| Album | Vondel's Lucifer - First Movement |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| Lucifer: | |
| It is not meet for Dominations grave, | |
| Powers well-disposed in state, thus to give up | |
| So loosely their established rights; and since | |
| The supreme Power is by His laws most bound, | |
| To change becomes Him least. Let all yield | |
| Who will, not one food shall I e’er retreat. | |
| Nor hardship dire | |
| Nor yet disaster nor anathemas | |
| Shall me intimidate, or tame. | |
| Here is my Fatherland | |
| Chorus: | |
| Am I a son | |
| Of light, a ruler of the light, my place | |
| I shall maintain, to no usurper bow, | |
| Not even this Arch-usurper. | |
| To be the first prince in some lower court | |
| Is better than | |
| Within the Blessed light to be the second, | |
| The second, or even less. | |
| To die, or to gain port | |
| Around the dreadful cape, this is my destiny. | |
| Doth fate decree that I must fall. | |
| Of rank and honours shorn | |
| Then let me fall; but fall with this my crown | |
| Upon my brow, this scepter in my grasp, | |
| With my own retinue of faithful troops, | |
| And with these many thousands on my side. | |
| Aye, thus to fall brings honour and shall shed | |
| Unfading glory on my name. |
| Lucifer: | |
| It is not meet for Dominations grave, | |
| Powers welldisposed in state, thus to give up | |
| So loosely their established rights and since | |
| The supreme Power is by His laws most bound, | |
| To change becomes Him least. Let all yield | |
| Who will, not one food shall I e' er retreat. | |
| Nor hardship dire | |
| Nor yet disaster nor anathemas | |
| Shall me intimidate, or tame. | |
| Here is my Fatherland | |
| Chorus: | |
| Am I a son | |
| Of light, a ruler of the light, my place | |
| I shall maintain, to no usurper bow, | |
| Not even this Archusurper. | |
| To be the first prince in some lower court | |
| Is better than | |
| Within the Blessed light to be the second, | |
| The second, or even less. | |
| To die, or to gain port | |
| Around the dreadful cape, this is my destiny. | |
| Doth fate decree that I must fall. | |
| Of rank and honours shorn | |
| Then let me fall but fall with this my crown | |
| Upon my brow, this scepter in my grasp, | |
| With my own retinue of faithful troops, | |
| And with these many thousands on my side. | |
| Aye, thus to fall brings honour and shall shed | |
| Unfading glory on my name. |
| Lucifer: | |
| It is not meet for Dominations grave, | |
| Powers welldisposed in state, thus to give up | |
| So loosely their established rights and since | |
| The supreme Power is by His laws most bound, | |
| To change becomes Him least. Let all yield | |
| Who will, not one food shall I e' er retreat. | |
| Nor hardship dire | |
| Nor yet disaster nor anathemas | |
| Shall me intimidate, or tame. | |
| Here is my Fatherland | |
| Chorus: | |
| Am I a son | |
| Of light, a ruler of the light, my place | |
| I shall maintain, to no usurper bow, | |
| Not even this Archusurper. | |
| To be the first prince in some lower court | |
| Is better than | |
| Within the Blessed light to be the second, | |
| The second, or even less. | |
| To die, or to gain port | |
| Around the dreadful cape, this is my destiny. | |
| Doth fate decree that I must fall. | |
| Of rank and honours shorn | |
| Then let me fall but fall with this my crown | |
| Upon my brow, this scepter in my grasp, | |
| With my own retinue of faithful troops, | |
| And with these many thousands on my side. | |
| Aye, thus to fall brings honour and shall shed | |
| Unfading glory on my name. |