Who reads them shall be wise! Hell’s fiercest Peers
Have oft essayed to burst these bolted rocks;
And, under Baal-Phaxi’s deepest blocks,
Mines they have digged, and loaded, and exploded.
Yea, Mogophur, the Lord of Babylon,
Came with his captains and a countless rabble on—
“Of spearmen, chariots, and Tartarian riders,
Whose faces were the likeness of a flame,
And elephants crept through the pass like spiders,
And the whole College of Magicians came,