NELSON, BYRON C. The deluge story in stone; a history of the flood theory of geology © 21Sep31; A42607.

There hast thou fix'd the ocean's mounds, The threat'ning surges to repel: That they no more o'erpass their bounds, Nor to a second deluge swell.

to make Spaine a Bonfire To quench which must a second Deluge raine In showres of blood, no water!

Andes, or the snowy scalps Of the giant towering Alps! Hills prolific, valley deeps, Where the muse of silence sleeps; Frowning cliff, and beetling rock, Shivered by the deluge shock, When the world was drownedand now Tottering before Ruin's plough.

The rain a deluge showers!

Where Horror-led his sea of ice assails, Havoc and Chaos blast a thousand vales, 695 In waves, like two enormous serpents, wind And drag their length of deluge train behind.

" "The waters of the deluge crosswise flow."

I should not marvel, Though to the lake these rocks should bow their heads, Though yonder pinnacles, yon towers of ice, That, since creation's dawn, have known no thaw, Should, from their lofty summits, melt away Though yonder mountains, yon primeval cliffs, Should topple down, and a new deluge whelm Beneath its waves all living men's abodes!

And then, execrating Müller, and Molino, and Molino's bath, and Molino's customers, and all Molino's ancestors from the period of the deluge downwards, I reluctantly complied.