“On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose.
Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.”

— George Meredith

Lucifer in Starlight http://www.george-macdonald.com/meredith/lucifer.htm, l. 1-2 (1883).

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British novelist and poet of the Victorian era 1828–1909

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