LVIII.

But take your choice): and then it grew a cloud; And so it was--a cloud of witnesses. But such a cloud! No land ere saw a crowd Of locusts numerous as the heavens saw these;[ha] They shadowed with their myriads Space; their loud And varied cries were like those of wild geese,[hb] (If nations may be likened to a goose), And realised the phrase of "Hell broke loose."[529]