Yea, all was dark. Earth, Air, and Ocean, now

Were void. Not so in the dread realms below:—

Where there were spirits—tens of thousands, fiends,

Whose shrieks were borne upon the various winds

Of hell; and who with awful vengeance swore

That such should be for ever, evermore!

Where mountains labour in the trough of woe,

And topple over on the host below:

Where valleys lift themselves, and roll in waves:

Where grim idolaters rise from their graves