The Apparition: A Retrospect

Convulsions came; and, where the field

 Long slept in pastoral green,

A goblin-mountain was upheaved

(Sure the scared sense was all deceived),

 Marl-glen and slag-ravine.

The unreserve of Ill was there,

 The clinkers in her last retreat;

But, ere the eye could take it in,

Or mind could comprehension win,

 It sunk! — and at our feet.

So, then, Solidity's a crust —

 The core of fire below;

All may go well for many a year,

But who can think without a fear

 Of horrors that happen so?