UPON a cloud among the stars we stood.
The angel raised his hand and looked and said,
'Which world, of all yon starry myriad,
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Then that dread angel near the awful throne,
Leaving the seraphs ranged in flaming tiers,
Winged his dark way through those unpinioned spheres,
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Then that dread angel near the awful throne,
Leaving the seraphs ranged in flaming tiers,
Winged his dark way through those unpinioned spheres,
And on the void's black beetling edge, alone,
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Upon a cloud among the stars we stood.
The angel raised his hand and looked and said,
"Which world, of all yon starry myriad,
Shall we make wing to?" The still solitude
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Vast Chaos, of eld, was God's dominion,
'Twas His beloved child, His own first born;
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