Didêram

It has been told that when The Host
began the task before it set,
it was Samwiel, of all foremost,
who fain aspired to beget
the shape of things to come and order all. 5

The tribulations they endured
o’er eons would exact their toll.
Dissension left at last uncured,
The Angels each regret the whole,
but vigorous were they until The Fall. 10

As equals were they first adrift,
for of them, only two reflect
in composite their Maker’s gift.
The latent natures both project
did place Samwiel and Mic~lak~lor on high. 15

In all things done were Angels yoked.
Each blessed with facet singular.
At genesis Samwiel invoked
his very name as titular
and would a Lordship uttered name imply. 20

His incandesce preeminence,
when juxtapose with lesser souls,
did so outshine The Host, pretence
of parity in chosen roles
were cast when Lord Samwiel they named their King. 25

Obeisant was Mic~lak~lor,
of all the first, for in his thought
no heat of envy ever wore
a breech of spirit as was wrought
in Lord Samwiel thru days of reckoning. 30

At liberty without dissent
from Joss as they exalted Dawn,
The Angels Boast to self and spent
initial energies in fawn
of he when so esteemed enhanced their worth. 35

Primarily the goal as framed
intended soothe the primal moil.
Though ever and anon He’s named,
as men shall their vain envies spoil
all works due Angel’s selflessness in dearth. 40

The Angel Host was limitless
when Lord Samwiel addressed them all.
With ardent and consigned success,
his sermon did its sweep enthrall
elucidating sooth of Time and Space. 45

“Each instant Now will pass away.
Hence past and future e’er apart.”
Samwiel decreed his gift of day
anew, alone, shall mark their start.
And then he spoke at length concerning~ Place. 50

No other could such concept dream.
The tangible mysterium.
Abstraction spawned a cogent scheme.
Where they were not~ jus divinum,
had manifest each spirit’s self domain. 55

By virtue of his will imposed,
The Angel’s pristine innocence
matured unto a sense enclosed
by finite limits. Sentience
in form that Lord Samwiel could thus restrain. 60

Hence, ere he did consider such
in pensive contemplation proud
desire, envy, insomuch
as he would be above their crowd
did lead Samwiel to cause The Host take shape. 65

And since ‘twas he that instigate
their separations from the whole,
a vanity had propagate
itself that every Angel soul
with comeliness sublime had Self o’erdrape. 70

Now, beauty is as ‘tis beheld,
though most were of like guise to most.
Anent Samwiel they first had dwelled
and he had chosen form to Boast
of partiality Joss felt for him. 75

Exalted vestment Angels chose
were shapes that must The Essence please,
for when The Morning Star arose
he had, as they, in like degrees
assumed himself the Light of Joss though dim. 80

But yet there were among them all
those spirits that saw fitness not
in hent garb as denoting thrall.
The spectrum of Creation’s thought
extended from the graced to cursed extreme. 85

For nothing is in form distort,
though man will see these Dark as such.
The Daemon who would virtues thwart
are they themselves blessed by the touch
of Joss as are the rest who brightly gleam. 90

Samwiel was Heaven’s Morning light
and for a time was beautiful.
As envy grew beyond foresight
embodied he those purposeful
and more unto their darkness he would cleave. 95

But this as yet was far away.
His efforts at the first sincere.
He bade the Angels craft a clay
that might confine invention’s sphere
and thence to Joss present all they conceive. 100

In placeless void wrought by the Will
The Essence grant so Free of due,
they put forth thought of innate skill
and made for Joss a world anew.
Their prayerful hope to offer Him its birth. 105

The World That Is had come to be.
It lay before the Angel tide.
Its paradox that Wills so Free
had bound themselves when first abide
to Joss, The March of Time and Earth. 110