Immediately, the cloud collaps’d and fled,

And he, the lord of death, appeared glad:

He stood erect, and, in the act of pray’r,

Pour’d forth his orisons into the air:

His pow’rful speech made all the host afraid,

And instantly his mandates were obey’d:

He spoke but once—his chariots were at hand,

And round about him his attendants stand,—

Each in apparel dazzling to the sight,—

Their wings outspread in readiness for flight.