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IT fell in the ancient periods Which the brooding soul surveys Or ever the wild Time coin'd itself Into calendar months and days. This was the lapse of Uriel 5 Which in Paradise befell. Once among the Pleiads walking Sayd overheard the young gods talking; And the treason too long pent To his ears was evident. 10 The young deities discuss'd Laws of form and metre just Orb quintessence and sunbeams What subsisteth and what seems. One with low tones that decide 15 And doubt and reverend use defied With a look that solved the sphere And stirr'd the devils everywhere Gave his sentiment divine Against the being of a line. 20 'Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round; In vain produced all rays return; Evil will bless and ice will burn.' As Uriel spoke with piercing eye 25 A shudder ran around the sky; The stern old war-gods shook their heads; The seraphs frown'd from myrtle-beds; Seem'd to the holy festival The rash word boded ill to all; 30 The balance-beam of Fate was bent; The bounds of good and ill were rent; Strong Hades could not keep his own But all slid to confusion. A sad self-knowledge withering fell 35 On the beauty of Uriel; In heaven once eminent the god Withdrew that hour into his cloud; Whether doom'd to long gyration In the sea of generation 40 Or by knowledge grown too bright To hit the nerve of feebler sight. Straightway a forgetting wind Stole over the celestial kind And their lips the secret kept 45 If in ashes the fire-seed slept. But now and then truth-speaking things Shamed the angels' veiling wings; And shrilling from the solar course Or from fruit of chemic force 50 Procession of a soul in matter Or the speeding change of water Or out of the good of evil born Came Uriel's voice of cherub scorn And a blush tinged the upper sky 55 And the gods shook they knew not why.
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