Anon with gathering stature to the height

Of those colossal giants, doomed long since

To torturous grief and penance, that assailed

The sky-throned courts of Zeus, and climbing, dared

For once in a world the Olympic wrath, and braved

The electric spirit which from his clenching hand

Pierces the dark-veined earth, and with a touch

Is death to mortals, fearfully they grew!