Of billows breaking on the shore."

"Hush!--'tis beneath the ground,

That hollow rending shock,

Makes the tall mountains rock,--

The solid earth doth like a drunkard reel;

Pale nature holds her breath,

Her tribes are mute as death.

In silent dread the coming doom they feel."

"Ah, God have mercy!--hark! those dismal cries--

Man knows his danger now,