Within whose maze the winds are lost; and borne

On cliff-like brows of plunging scolopendras,

The shell-wrought tow’rs of ocean-witches loom,

And griffin-mounted gods, and demons throned

On sable dragons, and the cockodrills

That bear the spleenful pygmies on their backs;

And blue-faced wizards from the worlds of Saiph,

On whom Titanic scorpions fawn; and armies

That move with fronts reverted from the foe,

And strike athwart their shoulders at the shapes