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.
Source: The Dunciad, bk. 4.
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.