...at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the...noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee. How art thou fallen from heaven, Oh, Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground,...

...3 4 chief ones of the earth ; It hath raised up from their thrones All the kings ot the nations. 10 !r pfrwsw s u ui? 1 1 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, A lid the noise of thy viols : The worm is spread under...

...meet thee' at thy coming': it stirreth up the dead for thee', even all the chief ones of the earth'; it hath raised up from their thrones' all the kings of the nations'. Thou shalt be broaght down to hell', to the sides of the pit*. Luke xvi. 22, 23, And it came to pass,...

...Isaiah, " against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased ! Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of their idols ; the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. I will cut off from Babylon...

...^BV Cf. 48'. In any case we should read 'shall put down the kings', Ac. It is possible that Is. 14* ' it hath raised up from their thrones -all the kings of the nations' may have led to the above misrendering or corruption. With the restored text we might compare such...

...it reverence. This last image seems a reference to Isaiah 14:9: "Hell stirreth up the dead for thee; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations." The towers recall Babel, while the poem's reflective sea recalls the Dead Sea, a name Poe surely loved....

...at your coming: It stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones (leaders) of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto you: are you also become weak as we? Are you become like unto us (no longer in power and influence...

..."Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee ... it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations." Poe pointed out in his unfinished story "A Reviewer Reviewed" (1849) the following from Mrs. Sigourney's...

...Lucifer is clearly denned as a man. 2. Because Lucifer was a human king, "All the kings of the nations... shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?" (vs. 9-10). Lucifer was therefore a king like any other king. 3. Verse 20 says that Lucifer's seed...

...to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.] FN: The Infernum Porticum of the Hebrews — they buried the great in large sepulchral vaults hewn...