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As from two mutual tongues by love in- Revenge had kept long vigil; and man seem'd

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The hills move lightly, and the mountains

smoke,

For he has touched them. From th' extremest point

Of elevation down into th' abyss

His wrath is busy, and his frown is felt. The rocks fall headlong, and the vallies rise, The rivers die into offensive pools,

And, charged with putrid verdure, breathe a gross

And mortal nuisance into all the air.

What solid was, by transformation strange,
Grows fluid; and the fix'd and routed earth,
Tormented into billows, heaves and swells,
Or with vortiginous and hideous whirl
Sucks down his prey insatiable. Immense
The tumult and the overthrow, the pangs
And agonies of human and of brute
Multitudes, fugitive on every side,
And fugitive in vain. The sylvan scene
Migrates uplifted; and, with all its soil
Alighting in far distant fields, finds out
A new possessor, aud survives the change.

Ocean has caught the frenzy, and, upwrought To an enormous and o'erbearing height, Not by a mighty wind, but by that voice, Which winds and waves obey, invades the shore

Resistless. Never such a sudden flood, Upridged so high, and sent on such a charge, Possessed an inland scene. Where now the

throng,

That pressed the beach, and, hasty to depart, Looked to the sea for safety? They are gone, Gone with the refluent wave into the deepA prince with half his people! Ancient towers,

And roofs embattled high, the gloomy scenes, Where beauty oft and lettered worth con

sume

Life in the unproductive shades of death,
Fall prone: the pale inhabitants come forth,
And, happy, in their unforeseen release
From all the rigours of restraint, enjoy
The terrors of the day, that sets them free.

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