“Incensed with indignation, Satan stood
Unterrified, and like a comet burn’d
That fines the length of Ophiucus huge
In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war.”
Similar ideas are finely expressed by Savage:
“In fancy’s eye encount’ring armies glare,
And sanguine ensigns wave unfurled in air!
Hence the deep vulgar deem impending fate,
A monarch ruined, or unpeopled state.