Collected English Verse — George Darley. b. 1795, d. 1846 (Part 2 of 2)
The planetary sisters all
Join in the fatal song,
And weep this hapless brother’s fall,
Who sang
with them so long.
But deepest of the choral band
The Lunar Spirit sings,
And with a bass-according hand
Sweeps
all her sullen strings.
From the deep chambers of the dome
Where sleepless Uriel lies,
His rude harmonic thunders
come
Mingled with mighty sighs.
The thousand car-borne cherubim,
The wandering eleven,
All join to chant the dirge of him
Who
fell just now from Heaven.