Ne Plus Ultra - By Samuel Taylor 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!

1826.