Till her black battery on the column bears:
The nitre fired; and, while the dreadful sound
Convulsive shook the slumbering air around,
The watery volume, trembling to the sky,
Burst down a dreadful deluge, from on high!
Th’ expanding ocean trembled as it fell,
And felt with swift recoil her surges swell;
But soon, this transient undulation o’er,
The sea subsides, the whirlwinds rage no more.
While southward now th’ increasing breezes veer,