Whose radiance mocked the ruin it adorn’d!)
Through clouds of fire the massive fragments riven,
Like Israel’s pillar, chase the night from heaven;
Saw the long column of revolving flames
Shake its red shadow o’er the startled Thames,
While thousands, throng’d around the burning dome,
Shrank back appall’d, and trembled for their home,
As glared the volum’d blaze, and ghastly shone
The skies, with lightnings awful as their own,
Till blackening ashes and the lonely wall