Lucifer monologue (Act 3) — Vondel's Lucifer

What creature else so wretched is as I? On the one side flicker feeble rays of hope, While on the other yawns a flaming horror. A triumph is most dubious; defeat Most hard to shun. In such uncertainty, God and His banner to oppose?--the first 390 To be a standard to unfurl 'gainst God, His trump celestial and revealed command? --Of rebels thus to make myself the chief, And 'gainst the law of Heaven another law To oppose?--to fall into the dreadful curse Of a most base ingratitude?--to wound The mercy, love, and majesty of Him, The Father bountiful, source of all good That e'er was given or may yet be received? How have I erred so far from duty's path? 400 I have abjured my Maker: how can I Before that Light disguise my blasphemy And wickedness? Retreat availeth not. Nay, I have gone too far. What remedy? What best to do amid this hopelessness? The time brooks no delay. One moment's time Is not enough, if time it may be called, This brevity 'twixt bliss and endless doom. But 'tis too late. No cleansing for my stain Is here. All hope is past. What remedy? 410 Hark I there I hear God's trumpet blow without,