Brydone, Patrick; Beckford, William: A Tour Through Sicily And Malta: in a series of letters to William Beckford ; in 2 vol. (Band 1) (1775)

268 A TOUR THROUGH
Sovente negri nubi al ciel destina
Fumanti di atro turbine, e di ardori,
Ergi globbi di fiamma, e sli lambisce
Le itelle ornai con infuocate striscie ;
Scogli, e divelte viscere di monte
Erruttando tal volta avido estolle ;
E con gemiti vomita, e con onte
Liquifatti macigni, e in fondo bolle."
So sings the Sicilian muse ;—you will
not however hesitate to give the preference
to the Roman one, although the former is
evidently stolen from her.
« - , , , Horrificis juxta tonat /Etna mini's,
Interdumque atramprorumpitad jethera nubem,
Turbine fumantem piceo et candente favilla,
Atcollitque globos fiammarum, etsidera lambit.
Interdumque icopulos, avolsaque viscera montis
Erigit eru&ans, liquefactaque saxa Tub auras
Cum gemitu glomerat,fundoque exceiluat imo."
But both these have been greatly out-
done by the wonderful imagination of our
great