Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate: His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull, So little trouble had been given of late; Not that the place by any means was full George Gordon Byron The Vision of Judgment paradise
Terrestrial business filled nought in the sky Save the Recording Angel's black bureau; Who found, indeed, the facts to multiply With such rapidity of vice and woe, That he had stripped off both his wings in quills, And yet was in arrear of human ills. George Gordon Byron The Vision of Judgment God evil
What Angels shrink from: even the very Devil On this occasion his own work abhorred George Gordon Byron The Vision of Judgment death