Winter. (The Winds)

Spirit of unwearied wing,     From the Baltic's frozen main,     From the Russ's bleak domain,     Say, what tidings dost thou bring!     Shouts, and the noise of battle! and again     The winged wind blew loud a deadly blast;     Shouts, and the noise of battle! the long main     Seemed with hoarse voice to answer as he passed.     The moody South went by, and silence kept;     The cloudy rack oft hid his mournful mien,     And frequent fell the showers, as if he wept     The eternal havoc of this mortal scene.     He had heard the yell, and cry,     And howling dance of Anarchy,     Where the Rhone, with rushing flood,     Murmured to the main, through blood:--     He seemed to wish he could for ever throw     His misty mantle o'er a world of woe.     But rousing him from his desponding trance,     Cold Eurus blew his sharp and shrilling horn;     In his right hand he bore an icy lance,     That far off glittered in the frost of morn;     The old man knew the clarion from afar,     What from the East? he cried.