Are heard around; the boiling waters roar,

And smoky flames through fuming tunnels soar.

Hither the father of the fire, by night,

Through the brown air precipitates his flight.

On their eternal anvils here he found

The brethren beating, and the blows go round:

A load of pointless thunder now there lies

Before their hands, to ripen for the skies:

These darts, for angry Jove, they daily cast—

Consumed on mortals with prodigious waste.