Suddenly he sees himself growing bat wings; he sees himself becoming a monster; as the angel in him died, the rebel felt a pang of regret. God shall have the blue heavens, but I a dark and empty sky. Towards the star trembling pale in the horizon He pressed, leaping from one dark foothold to another He ran, he flew, he cried out : Golden star! Brother! Wait for me! I am coming! Do not die yet! Do not leave me alone... The star was now only a spark.. The spark Was now only a point of red in the depths of the dark gulf... Hoping to make the star glow brighter, He blew upon it as one would on coals, And anguish flared his fierce nostrils. He flew toward it ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, Stretching out his pale neck and his mad fingers, He flew without finding a single place of rest. From time to time the start seemed to darken and die, And horror of the tomb made the dark angel tremble. As he approached the star, Satan, like a swimmer making a final effort, Stretched his bald and taloned wings forward; a wan specter, Gasping, broken, exhausted, smoking with sweat, He collapsed at the steep brink of darkness... The star was almost gone. The dark angel was so weary That no voice, no breath was left to him. And the star was dying beneath his anguished gaze.. And the star went out. Throughout the universe I hear the word : Begone! Even the pig sneers to the dungheap, i despise Satan I feel the night thinking that I dishonor her... Once that pure white light of dawn was I. I! I was the splendid-browed archangel But I was envious. That was My crime. The word was spoken; the divine mouth pronounced me evil. And God spat me out into the pit. Ah! I love him! That is the horror, that is the burning flame! What will become of me, abyss? I love God! Hell is his eternal absence, Hell is to love, to cry, alas, where is my light, Where is my life and my illumination? [when first i fell, i boasted:] This God, worlds heart, this bright Father Whom angel, star, man, and beast bear within, This shepherd round whom his flock of creatures nestles, This being, the source of life, alone true, alone necessary- I can do without him, I the punished giant... Yet I love him! I know the truth! God is no spirit, but a heart. God, the loving center of the world, connects with his divine fibers The filaments and roots of all living things. [God loves every creature] Except Satan, forever rejected, sad, condemned. God leaves me out; he terminates at me;I am his boundary. God would be infinite if I did not exist... A hundred hundred times i repeat my vow: I love! God tortures me, yet my only blasphemy, My only frenzy, my only cry, is that I love! My love is enough to make the sky tremble. But in vain! Love hates me! No, i do not hate you! O Satan, you need only say, I shall live! Come, your prison will be pulled down and hell abolished! Come, the angel Liberty is your daughter and mine: This sublime parentage unites us. The archangel is born and the demon dies; I erase the baleful darkness so that none remains. Satan is dead; be born again, heavenly Lucifer! Come, rise up from the shadow with dawn on your brow.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 22:46:29 +0000
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