His course intended: else how had the World Inhabited, though sinless, more than now Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat? These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced Like change on sea and land, sideral blast, Vapour, and mist, and exhalation hot, Corrupt and pestilent. Now from the north Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shore, Bursting their brazen dungeon, armed with ice And snow and hail and stormy gust and flaw, Boreas and Caecias and Argestes loud And Thrascias rend the woods and seas upturn; With adverse blasts upturns them from the south Notus and Afer black with thundrous clouds From Serraliona; thwart of these, as fierce Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds, Eurus and Zephyr with their lateral noise, Sirocco, and Libecchio. Thus began Outrage from lifeless things; but Discord first, Daughter of Sin, among the irrational Death introduced through fierce antipathy: Beast now with beast ’gan war, and fowl with fowl, And fish with fish; to graze the herb all leaving Devoured each other; nor stood much in awe