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Unutterably fierce! the bright Abodes
Frequent they shake, and terrify the Gods:
Now bellowing like a Savage Bull, they roar,
Or angry Lions in the midnight hour;
Now yell like furious Whelps, or hiss like Snakes,
The Rocks rebound, and every Mountain shakes;
He hurl'd defiance 'gainst. th' immortal Pow'rs,
And Heav'n had feiz'd with all its fhining Tow'rs,
But at the Voice of Jove, from Pole to Pole
Red Lightnings flash, and raging Thunders roul,
Rattling o'er all th' Expansion of the Skies,
Bolt after Bolt o'er Earth and Ocean flies.
Stern frowns the God amidst the Lightnings Blaze,
Olympus shakes from his eternal Base;
Trembles the Earth: fierce Flame involves the Poles,
Devours the Ground, and o'er the Billows rouls,
Fires from Typhoeus flash: with dreadful sound
Storms rattle, Thunder rouls, and groans the Ground;
Frequent they shake, and terrify the Gods:
Now bellowing like a Savage Bull, they roar,
Or angry Lions in the midnight hour;
Now yell like furious Whelps, or hiss like Snakes,
The Rocks rebound, and every Mountain shakes;
He hurl'd defiance 'gainst. th' immortal Pow'rs,
And Heav'n had feiz'd with all its fhining Tow'rs,
But at the Voice of Jove, from Pole to Pole
Red Lightnings flash, and raging Thunders roul,
Rattling o'er all th' Expansion of the Skies,
Bolt after Bolt o'er Earth and Ocean flies.
Stern frowns the God amidst the Lightnings Blaze,
Olympus shakes from his eternal Base;
Trembles the Earth: fierce Flame involves the Poles,
Devours the Ground, and o'er the Billows rouls,
Fires from Typhoeus flash: with dreadful sound
Storms rattle, Thunder rouls, and groans the Ground;
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