Yes, Jan, the moment is as important as the writer and the reader, a humbling truth.
The root of that inversion was the desire to repeat the structure of the language there:
consumed by flight,
by brilliance drawn
I like that effect, the momentum it creates, and I will often twist customary grammar to accommodate it. If I un-invert the line, drawn by brilliance, it loses it sonic force, the word by is repeated, but the iambic metrical pattern is not. It's the combination of the two that works for me.
Nemo
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