JUPITER THUNDERING IN DEFENCE OF ROME:

By William Sidney Walker

Ipse refulgebat Tarpeiæ culmine rupis,

Elatâ quatiens flagrantia fulmina dextrâ,

Jupiter, ac lati fumabant sulphure campi,

Et gelidis Anio trepidabat cœrulus undis:

Et densi ante oculos iterùmque iterùmque tremendum

Vibrabant ignes....

High on the rock, the God, with furious look,

From side to side his burning thunder shook:

Now here, now there, the scattering lightnings broke,

And the wide vallies flamed, and glowed with sulphurous smoke:

Contagious terror roll'd from plain to plain;

Cold Anio trembled in his watery reign;

And dazzled by the withering flames, o'eraw' d,

The chief shrunk back, and own'd the present God.