Force yielding up its vantage-ground to craft.

The mine that works its central, winding way

Volcanic, and, built deep by artifice,

Like Mongibello, shows not its effect

In those abysses where its pregnant powers

Lie hid, concealing all their horrors dark

E’en from the fire itself; but there begins

The task which here in ruin ends and woe,—

Lightning beneath and thunderbolts above.—

Now, if my love, amidst the realms of air,