...in woods we lay, you recollect ; Swift ran the searching tempest overhead, And ever and anon soiue bright white shaft Burnt thro' the pine-tree roof...messenger thro' the close wood screen Plunged and ropluuged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty thee and me ; then broke The thunder like a whole...

...white shaft Burned through the pine-tree roof, here burned and there, As if God's messenger through the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty thee and me. Cleanthes uses the same figure of a sword for lightning : So great is the power thou confident, with...

...white shaft Burnt through the pine-tree roof. Here burnt and there As i£ God's messenger through' the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty me and thee ; then burst The thunder like a whole sea overhead. Is not that very striking? Belton....