"Darkness fills the high seat of power"
A gloss (or context) -- "[The Prince of] Darkness fills the high seat of
[God's/Divine] power."
???
Thus Pope, at the end of the Dunciad:
Lo! thy dread Empire, Chaos! is restor'd;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And universal Darkness buries All.
... though I think Patrick's closest to it so far -- somehow, it emerges
from a post-Miltonic mush of ideas in or lines from Paradise Lost.
Robin
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