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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353724" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Genesis BK VI</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 246-260) The Holy Lord, All-wielding God, with mighty hand<br>had wrought ten angel-orders in whom He trusted well, that they<br>would do Him service, and work His will. Therefore God gave them<br>reason, with His own hands shaped them, and established them in<br>bliss. But one He made so great and strong of heart, He let him<br>wield such power in heaven next unto God, so radiant-hued He<br>wrought him, so fair his form in heaven which God had given, that<br>he was like unto the shining stars. He should have sung his<br>Maker's praise, and prized his bliss in heaven. He should have<br>thanked his Lord for the great boon He showered on him in the<br>heavenly light, and let him long enjoy. But he turned him to a<br>worse thing, and strove to stir up strife against the Highest<br>Lord of heaven, who sitteth on the throne of glory.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 261-276) Dear was he to our Lord. Nor could it long be hid<br>from God that pride was growing in His angel's heart. He set<br>himself against his Leader, scoffed at God with boasting, and<br>would not serve Him. He said his form was beautiful and bright,<br>gleaming and fair of hue. Nor could he find it in his heart to<br>serve the Lord God, or be subject to Him. It seemed to him that<br>he had greater strength and larger following than Holy God might<br>have. Many words the angel spake in his presumption. By his own<br>power alone he thought to build a stronger throne and mightier in<br>heaven. He said his heart was urging him to toil, to build a<br>stately palace in the north and west. He said he doubted in his<br>heart if he would still be subject unto God:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 277-291) &quot;Why should I slave?&quot; quoth he. &quot;I need not serve a<br>master. My hands are strong to work full many a wonder. Power<br>enough have I to rear a goodlier throne, a higher in the heavens.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why should I fawn for His favour, or yield Him such submission? <br>I may be God as well as He! Brave comrades stand about me;<br>stout-hearted heroes who will not fail me in the fray. These<br>valiant souls have chosen me their lord. With such peers one may<br>ponder counsel, and gain a following. Devoted are these friends<br>and faithful-hearted; and I may be their lord and rule this<br>realm. It seemeth no wise right to me that I should cringe a<br>whit to God for any good. I will not serve Him longer.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 292-298) Now when God had heard all this, how His angel was<br>beginning to make presumptuous head against his Leader, speaking<br>rash words of insolence against his Lord, needs must he make<br>atonement for that deed, endure the woe of strife, and bear his<br>punishment, most grievous of all deaths. And so doth every man<br>who wickedly thinketh to strive with God, the Lord of might.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 299-319) Then Almighty God, High Lord of heaven, was filled<br>with wrath, and hurled him from his lofty throne. He had gained<br>his Master's hate, and lost His favour. God's heart was hardened<br>against him. Wherefore he needs must sink into the pit of<br>torment because he strove against the Lord of heaven. He<br>banished him from grace and cast him into hell, into the deep<br>abyss where he became a devil. The Fiend and all his followers<br>fell from heaven; three nights and days the angels fell from<br>heaven into hell. God changed them all to devils. Because they<br>heeded not His deed and word, therefore Almighty God hurled them<br>into darkness, deep under earth, crushed them and set them in the<br>mirk of hell. There through the never-ending watches of the<br>night the fiends endure an unremitting fire. Then at the dawn<br>cometh an east wind, and bitter frost, ever a blast of fire or<br>storm of frost. And each must have his share of suffering<br>wrought for his punishment. Their world was changed when God<br>filled full the pit of hell with His foes!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 320-322) But the angels who kept their faith with God dwelt<br>in the heights of heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Caedmon">Caedmon</a><div class=q>
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