Whose blustering sighs at first their sorrow did declare;

Next, murmuring ensued; at last they not forbear

Plain outcries; all against the heavens that enviously

Deprived us of a sprite so perfect and so rare.

The sun his lightsome beams did shroud, and hide his face

For grief; whereby the earth feared night eternally:

The mountains eachwhere shook, the rivers turned their streams;

And th'air 'gan winter-like to rage and fret apace:

And grisly ghosts by night were seen; and fiery gleams

Amid the clouds with claps of thunder, that did seem