And lit great altars, and the eyes of lions—

Change, that hath made the very gods from slime

Drawn from the pits of Python, and will fling

Gods and their builded heavens back again

To slime. The fruits of archangelic light

Thou braggest of, and grapes of azure wine,

Have been the dung of dragons, and the blood

Of toads in Phlegethon; each particle

That is their splendour, clomb in separate ways,

Through suns, and worlds, and cycles infinite—