Other flashes with incessant play cross their vivid fires, while others again roll themselves into balls of living fire which explode like bombshells, but the music of which scarcely-adds to the din of the battle strife that almost deprives us of our senses of hearing and sight; the limit of intense loudness has been passed within which the human ear can distinguish one sound from another. If all the powder magazines in the world were to explode at once, we should hear no more than we do now.
Otros relámpagos se bifurcan, o toman la forma de globos de fuego, que estallan como bombas. No por eso aumenta el ruido, porque ha rebasado ya el límite de intensidad que puede percibir el oído humano, y aunque todos los polvorines del mundo hiciesen explosión a la vez, no lo oiríamos.