Flow'd from me, and the darkness of the grave,

The darkness of the grave and utter night,

Did swallow up my vision: at her feet,

Even the feet of her I loved, I fell,

Smit with exceeding sorrow unto death.

Then had the earth beneath me yawning given

Sign of convulsion; and tho' horrid rifts

Sent up the moaning of unhappy spirits

Imprison'd in her centre, with the heat

Of their infolding element; had the angels,