Which vibrates earth and air for miles around.

* * * * *

Thus, senseless, for three hours low laid the god,

And by his side his golden-headed rod.

Then, gather’d ’round him, all the fairy hosts—

Pale and affrighted, like so many ghosts—

Perform a solemn requiem for his soul.

Still stood the sun, and dark; but in the bowl,[119]

The rosy liquid flamed a cubit high,

To mourn poor Bacchus’ death: those standing by