Groan’d shattering: vast Olympus reel’d throughout

Down to its rooted base beneath the rush

Of those immortals: the [207]dark chasm of hell

Was shaken with the trembling, with the tramp

Of hollow footsteps and strong battle-strokes,

And measureless uproar of wild pursuit.

So they against each other through the air

Hurl’d intermix’d their weapons, scattering groans

Where’er they fell. The voice of armies rose

With rallying shout through the starr’d firmament,