Rain Against Waves

A battle rages between Wind and Main ; -
     With myriad scourges smites the eastern gale,
     And mad seas like the rebel gods assail
With their own mountains the wild hurricane.
Sea roars, and Wind shrieks; and the rumbling train
     Of heaven's artillery joins the shout and wail
     In peals of volleyed thunder, dashed with hail,
And the long, slantwise javelins of the rain!
     Fiercer the blast the wilder is the leap
Of the ferocious waters; - but alack!
     The strongest fall by treason! what the deep
Gave to the cloud the traitor-cloud hurls back,
     Till the torn billows shrink into their caves,
     And Rain with million feet tramples the prostrate waves