That seem symbolic of an angry power

Which dwells below, and is infernal called.

The war-crowned lightning skips from pole to pole

On strings of iron, to haste with quick intelligence.

"Once, nature could be hid, and fondly think

She had some jewels in the earth, but now ye dig

Into her very bowels, to recover morsels sweet

She erst with deglutition had drawn in. The rocks

Your toils dissolve, to find perchance some treasure

Lying there. Is yonder land of gold alone