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Le génie du mal

And lucifer said, "Souls who dare use their immortality -

Souls who dare look the omnipotent tyrant in

His everlasting face, and tell him that

His evil is not good! If he has made,

As he saith - which I know not, nor believe -

But, if he made us - he cannot unmake:

We are immortal! - nay, he’d have us so,

That he may torture: - let him! He is great -

But, in his greatness, is no happier than

We in our conflict! Goodness would not make

Evil; and what else hath he made? But let him

Sit on his vast and solitary throne -

Creating worlds, to make eternity

Less burthensome to his immense existence

And unparticipated solitude

Let him crowd orb on orb: he is alone

Indefinite, Indissoluble Tyrant;

Could he but crush himself, ’twere the best boon

He ever granted: but let him reign on!

And multiply himself in misery!

Spirits and Men, at least we sympathise -

And, suffering in concert, make our pangs

Innumerable, more endurable,

By the unbounded sympathy of all

With all! But He! so wretched in his height,

So restless in his wretchedness, must still

Create and re-create - perhaps he’ll make

One day a Son unto himself - as he

Gave you a father - and if he so doth,

Depictions of Lucifer in paintings

𝑅𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠