Classic Poem

Where the great dividing ranges
Raise their ramparts bold and blue,
Guarding through th' eternal changes
Old world landmarks in the New;
There are in its secret places,
Shrined by prehistoric man,
Deities whose imaged faces
Frown in basalt stygian.
Here a spirit malefesant,
To which none will dare to pray,
Sends the hot winds omnipresent
Scorching o'er the face of day,
Hurls the awful bolts of thunder,
Sends the devastating rains
Down in floods to rob and plunder
All the wealth of all the plains.
Uloola, somnific wizard,
With the adder's heart and brain,
Starts the multi-bladed blizzard
With the death chill in its train,
Splits with fiery spears of lightning,
Forest giants branch and root,
Spreads the icy hail sheet whitening,
Stiffening forms of man and brute.
And with hell breath fiercely blowing
Heat waves into lurid fire,
Sends the blood red breakers glowing
Round the feet of nature's pyre.