Reiterated swift; the whirling flash
Cast sacred splendour, and the thunderbolt
Fell. Then on every side the foodful earth
Roar’d in the burning flame, and far and near
The trackless depth of forests crash’d with fire.
Yea—the broad earth burn’d red, the floods of Nile
Glow’d, and the desert waters of the sea.
Round and around the Titans’ earthy forms
Roll’d the hot vapour, and on fiery surge
Stream’d upward, swathing in one boundless blaze