The column ordered on the assault scarce passed
Beyond the Russian batteries a few toises,
When up the bristling Muslim rose at last,
Answering the Christian thunders with like voices:
Then one vast fire, air, earth, and stream embraced,
Which rocked as ’twere beneath the mighty noises;
While the whole rampart blazed like Etna, when
The restless Titan hiccups in his den;