Luciferians monologue (Act 2) — Vondel's Lucifer

O brothers, can ye ask with earnestness Why we thus grieve? Did ye also not hear What Gabriel's trump revealed: how we through this New-given command, down from our state are thrust 80 Into a slavery of Earth and of As many souls as from a little blood And seed may haply spring? What have we done Amiss? how erred, that God a water-bubble, Blown full of vapid air, exalts. His sons, The Angels, to abase?--a bastardy Exalts, formed out of clay and dust? But now We stood as trusty pillars, consecrate Unto His court, adorned our various place As faithful members of His Realm; and now, 90 In one brief hour, we are expelled and shorn Of all our dignity,--oppressed, alas! Too sternly and with too much heaviness. The charter and the primal privilege Received from God are now by Him repealed. And there where we had thought to rule with God And under God, shall now this Adam reign, Triumphant in his seed and blood forever. The sun of Spirits hath set for them too soon. Ah I comrades, hear our sorrow and our woes. 100 Alas! alas! where is our bliss departed?