• I see the cloud-born squadrons of the gale,
      Their lines of rain like glittering spears deprest,
    While all the affrighted land grows darkly pale
      In flashing charge on earth’s half-shielded breast.

    Sounds like the rush of trampling columns float
      From that fierce conflict; volleyed thunders peal,
    Blent with the maddened wind’s wild buglenote...

  • I See the cloud-born squadrons of the gale,
      Their lines of rain like glittering spears deprest,
    While all the affrighted land grows darkly pale
      In flashing charge on earth’s half-shielded breast.

    Sounds like the rush of trampling columns float
      From that fierce conflict; volleyed thunders peal,
    Blent with the maddened wind’s wild bugle-...