Ye silent shades!

Oh Chaos hoar! and Phlegethon profound!

Pitt.

So also Ovid, Metamorph. x. Orpheus to Pluto and Proserpine:

I call you by those sights so full of fear:

This chaos vast; these silent kingdoms drear!

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The heaven and earth

Met hurtling in mid-air.]

Milton, Paradise Lost, book ii: