And that in wild, tempestuous nights,

The lurid lightning one might see,

Flashing around his castle heights;

While the deep-mouth’d bellowing thunder,

Shaking the massive keep,

Would seem its rocky walls to sunder,

Then straightway forth would leap

A dazzling, quiv’ring, noiseless flame,

And the black pall of night again

Enshroud the heaven’s starless steep.