With all thy majesty in Earth and Air,

Thy wit, thy wisdom, and unrivalled power;

Whose eloquence of speech, whose well-earn’d store

Of heav’nly honours, none can e’er surpass,—

Speak thou to Pluto, that I may repass

Through that great gulf, back to those orient plains,

There bask again among those teeming vines;—

There——” but as he spake this word[155] (and ’twas his last!)

Loud thunders clapp’d, and lightnings rent the Vast

Tornadoes, furiously the plains career’d;