Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

near the City os Naples. 189
Hence to the Borders of the Marsh they
That mingles with the baleful Streams
below,
And sometimes with a mighty Yawn,
’tis said,
Opens a dismal Passage to the Dead,
Who pale with Fear the rending Earth
survey,
And startle at the sudden Flasli of Day.
The dark Cimmerian Grotto then he
Paints,
Describing all its old Inhabitants,
That in the deep Infernal City dwell’d,
And lay in everlasting Night con-
ceal’d.
Advancing still, the spacious Fields he
show’d,
That with the smother’d Heat ofBrim-
j stone glow’d j
Through frequent Cracks the {learning
Sulphur broke,
And cover’d all the blasted Plain with
Smoke:
Imprison’d Fires, in the close Dunge-
ons pent
Roar to get loose, and struggle for a
Vent,
Eating their Way, and underminingall,
’Till with a mighty Burst whole Moun-
tains fall.
Here,