Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.
And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.