SIGNAL STATION: FAIRLIGHT, NEAR HASTINGS, SUSSEX
From January 30th, 1806, to December 7th, 1814
As when high Jove his sharp artillery forms,
And opes his cloudy magazine of storms;
In winter’s bleak uncomfortable reign,
A snowy inundation hides the plain;
He stills the winds and bids the skies to sleep;
Then pours the silent tempest thick and deep;
And first the mountain tops are covered o’er,
Then the green fields and then the sandy shore;