1590 ANNUAL REGISTER, 179. 
Convulfive fhook: the birds that ufed to fweep 
In crouded flight around the dizzy fteep, 
(As grey-robed vapors, driven before the ftorm, 
Float on the winds in many a varied form), 
Rous’d from thieir feeret clefts, with piercing crys - 
* Thro’ the dun air in countlefs myriads fly. 
From ev’ry point of heav’n red meicors glide 
In ftreaming radiance to the mountain’s fide, 
Thick Sgr thick; then to its height afpire, 
And form a rampart of encircling fire. 
But tho’ in fplendor rofe the mountain’s head, 
The robe of darknefs o’er the fky was fpread; 
Portentous darknefs—« Powers of earth and airl” 
Ebuda’s youth thus rais’d the fuppliant prayer, 
« Ye, who o’er nature’s wide domains prefide ! 
Ye, who thro’ boundlefs fp: enignly guide 
Heaven’s cheering orbs! thro’ the ethereal plain 
Roll the deep thunder, or its rage reftrain ! 
Whofe pow’r can check the lightning’s darted ray, 
And bid the ftorm in whifpers die away, 
Affit the race ie !—-behold, unbound, | 
The Powers of evil urge their wafteful round ! 
The demon of deftruction is abroad,—. 
And his yon dreadful fcene !—Beneath his load — 
Conagra trembles—bind, oh bind again 
This fury in your adamantine chain !”— 
He ceas’d; for, echoing from the mountain’s head, 
Again the founds that ftruck his foul with dread . 
More direful rofe.—« Seize, feize, the fated hour: 
On yonder fleet the fterm of vengeance pour ! 
Defcend ye clouds of death! ye fiends arife ! 
Burtt forth yefftorms, and mingle feas and ties!” 
And now the fplendor that enclos’d the fteep, 
In fparks of fire fiew diverfe o’er the deep, 
Kindling the nitrous clouds: with livid glare 
The lightning ftream’d along the troubled air; 
‘Tremendous thunder thro’ the vaft profound 
Tn peals redoubled roll’d its awful found : 
Th darkne& failing thro’ th’ affrighted tkies 
"lhe demons pour’d their death-denouncing cries. 
At times, their forms of dread the lurid light 
Difclos’d, and fwell’d the horrors of the night. 
Awhile the youth lay proftrate on the ground, 
When rous’d-in terror by a mightier found 
Of long-continu’d thunder, thro’ the tky 
He mark’d with keener blaze the lightning fly: 
Saw, as it flafh’d againit Conagra’s height, 
Out-jutting craigs, and rocks of ponderous weight, 
Precipitate 
