The world to concord from confusion slips:

The winds that blew the battle up dead slain,

Or with their tatter’d standards swept amain

From heaven; the billows of the erected deep

Roll’d with their crests into the foaming plain;

While the scared earth begins abroad to peep

And smooth her ruffled locks, as from a rent

In the black centre of the firmament,

Revenging his unnatural eclipse,

The Lord of heaven from its ulterior blue