Yet still refused her giant form to show—
Ay, sullenly below did yet remain
Earth-bearing Tortoise, the Unamis vast,
And o'er her still the loftly billows past.
XV.
"Then great Cawtantowit in his anger spoke,
And from his flaming eyes the lightnings past,
And from his wings the tenfold thunders broke.
The sullen Tortoise heard his words at last—
And slowly she her rocky grasp forsook,
And her huge back of woods and mountains vast
From the far depths tow'rd upper light began
Slowly to heave.—The affrighted waters ran
XVI.
"Hither and thither, tumultous and far;
But still Unamis, heaving from below
The full formed earth, first, through the waves did rear
The fast sky-climbing Alleghany's brow,
Dark, huge and craggy; from its summits bare
The rolling billows fell, and rising now,
All its broad forest to the breezy air
Came out of Ocean, and, from verdure fair,
XVII.
"Shed the salt showers. Far o'er the deep,
Hills after hills still lift their clustered trees,
Wild down the rising slopes the waters leap,
Then from the up-surging plain the ocean flees,
Till lifted from the flood, in vale and steep
And rock, and forest waving to the breeze,
Earth, on the Tortoise borne, frowned ocean o'er,
And spurned the billows from her thundering shore.
