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IV.
Prodigious thunders shake the sky,As from their cells with clam'rous rage they break;
Prodigious lightnings kindle as they fly,
And trace the clouds with many a fiery streak:
While in the darken'd air
With horrid beams malignant comets glare.
Encountring tempests strive,
Which mighty winds across each other drive;
Loos'd from the spacious cavities below,
From all th' adverse points of heav'n they blow,
And murmur from afar with stormy sound;
While burning bolts and hail-stones rake the ground.
Resistless whirlwinds bluster here and there,
Trees from their roots, stones from their rocks they tear.
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