Vast battlements, that loomed above the shock

Of freshening foam that climbed with haling hands,

Lone cloudy-clustered turrets in loud lands

Set desolate,—mournful o'er wide, frozen flats,—

Found hollow towers the haunt of owls and bats.

IV.

HATE, born of Wrath and mother red of Crime,

In Hell was whelped ere the hot hands of time,

Artificer of God, had coined one world