The clouds disperse in fumes, the wond’ring moon Beholds her brother’s steeds beneath her own: The high lands smoke, cleft by the piercing rays, Or, clad with woods, in their own fuel blaze. Next o’er the plains, where ripen’d harvests grow, The running conflagration spreads below. But these are trivial ills: whole cities burn, And peopled kingdoms into ashes turn.

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