The trembling  abscond their aged Heads
In mighty Pillars of Infernal Smoke,
Which from their bellowing Caverns broke,
And suffocates whole Nations where it spreads.
Sometimes the Fire within divides
The massy Rivers of those secret Chains,
Which hold together their prodigious Sides,
And hurls the shatter'd Rocks o'er all the Plains
While Towns and Cities, ev'ry thing below,
Is overwhelmed with the same burst of Woe.