I saw the human millions as the sand br Unruffled on the starlit wilderness. br The day was near, and every star grew less br In universal dawn. Then woke a band br Of wheeling winds, and made a mighty stress br Of morning weather; and still wilder went br O'er shifting plains, till, in their last excess, br A whirlwind whirled across the whirling land. br Heaven blackened over it; a voice of woes br Foreran it; the great noise of clanging foes br Hurtled behind; beneath the earth was rent, br And howling Death, like an uncaverned beast, br Leaped from his lair. Meanwhile morn oped the East, br And thro' the dusty tumult God arose.