by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Arise, ye subterranean Winds
Language: English
Arise, ye subterranean Winds, More to distract their guilty minds; And all ye filthy damps and vapours rise, Which use t'infect the earth, and trouble the skies. Rise you who from devouring plagues have birth, You that i'th'vast and hollow womb of earth Engender earthquakes, make whole countries shake, And stately cities into deserts turn; And you who feed the flames by which earth's entrails burn, Ye raging winds, whose rapid force can make All but the fix'd and solid centre shake: Come drive these wretches to that part o'th'isle Where nature never yet did smile; Cause fogs and strorms, whirlwinds and earthquakes there, There let 'em howl, and languish in despair: Rise and obey the powerful Prince o'th'Air.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Pietro Reggio (1632 - 1685), "Arise, ye subterranean Winds" [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 119