“Bade ocean flow in purple, and the shore
With gems upraised. Divinely wrought,
The threads embossed to swelling billows bore
Strange likeness; you had thought
“They dashed the seaweed on the rocks, or crept
Hoarse murmuring thro’ the thirsty sands.
Five zones, she added. In mid place she kept
With red distinct the lands
“Leaguered with burnings; all the region showed
Scorched into blackness, and the thread