And ease creation of the shocking scene.
Seest thou, Lorenzo! what depends on man?
The fate of Nature; as for man, her birth.
Earth’s actors change earth’s transitory scenes,
And make creation groan with human guilt. 155
How must it groan, in a new deluge whelm’d,
But not of waters! At the destined hour,
By the loud trumpet summon’d to the charge,
See, all the formidable sons of fire,
Eruptions, earthquakes, comets, lightnings, play