Of fierce, insatiate hell. He tore away

The iron nerves from that strong mountain’s heart,

As though the destiny of a conqueror lay

Deep hid within it, and the hour was come

When he must march to seek it, in a last

And wild death-revel. As this passed away,

In racking throes, which might have seemed the strong

Convulsive shudder of dissolving worlds,

The earth moaned feebly, as a dying child

Will murmur faintly in its fever-dream —