All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.