Now black the vault of heaven became;
Athwart the vapours thick and close,
While Loptur’s blood with terror froze,
Glitter’d afar a lurid flame!
Of thunder now tremendous peals
Shake earth and make the billows roar,
And every one instinctive feels
With awe th’ approach of Asa-Thor!
Lok sigh’d and sweated now with fear,
Yet still his terror he conceal’d;