Solemn heave the Atlantic waves between the gloomy nations

Solemn heave the Atlantic waves between the gloomy nations,

Swelling, belching from its deeps red clouds and raging fires.

Albion is sick! America faints! enrag'd the Zenith grew.

As human blood shooting its veins all round the orbed heaven,

Red rose the clouds from the Atlantic in vast wheels of blood,

And in the red clouds rose a Wonder o'er the Atlantic sea,

Intense! naked! a Human fire, fierce glowing as the wedge

Of iron heated in the furnace: his terrible limbs were fire

With myriads of cloudy terrors, banners dark and towers

Surrounded: heat but not light went thro' the murky atmosphere.

The King of England looking westward trembles at the vision.