...Lucifer's fall from Milton's Paradise Lost flared into my brain like a burning brand even as I watched: From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,...setting sun Dropp'd from the zenith like a falling star. I had memorized those lines at my father's school table, as well as the sad plaint from Isaiah: "How...

...who is the real boss of fire, as Milton describes in Paradise Lost, Book 1, from line 742 onwards: Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon...dewy eve, A summer's day, and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star. So this is a warning, then, after the elucidatory prayer...

...rolled once, then twice before sliding to a rest in the trampled brown grass. Chapter Twenty-Three . . .from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day, and with the setting sun Droptfrom the zenith, like a falling star. — John Milton, Paradise Lost, I 44 T Taughn?" Mary skidded...