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				Title:     Ne Plus Ultra 
			    Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge ]		                
			     Sole Positive of Night!Antipathist of Light!
 Fate's only essence! primal scorpion rod--
 The one permitted opposite of God!--
 Condensed blackness and abysmal storm
 Compacted to one sceptre
 Arms the Grasp enorm--
 The Interceptor--
 The Substance that still casts the shadow
 Death!--
 The Dragon foul and fell--
 The unrevealable,
 And hidden one, whose breath
 Gives wind and fuel to the fires of Hell!--
 Ah! sole despair
 Of both the eternities in Heaven!
 Sole interdict of all-bedewing prayer,
 The all-compassionate!
 Save to the Lampads Seven
 Reveal'd to none of all the Angelic State,
 Save to the Lampads Seven,
 That watch the throne of Heaven!
 
 
 
 
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