The Sun To Me Is Dark And

And The Earth Self-balanced On Her Centre Hung.

With Ruin Upon Ruin, Rout On Rout, Confusion Worse Confounded.

The Strongest And The Fiercest Spirit That Fought In Heaven, Now Fiercer By Despair.

Mammon, The Least Erected Spirit That Fell >from Heaven; For Ev'n In Heaven His Looks And Thoughts Were Always Downward Bent, Admiring More The Riches Of Heaven's Pavement, Trodden Gold, Than Aught Divine Or Holy Else Enjoy'd In Vision Beatific.

What Reinforcement We May Gain From Hope; If Not, What Resolution From Despair.