The flashes fell upon them; some lay down And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smil'd; And others hurrie

The flashes fell upon them; some lay down And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smil'd; And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their funeral piles with fuel, and look'd up With mad disquietude on the dull sky, The pall of a past world [1] That is a cherry picked qoute from Byron's Darkness, it would be very easy given a few centuries, the fact that it is a poem, the loss of historical context, several changes to linguistics followed by selective editing to interpret Byron was talking about the ancient astronaut nuke of 1816 and not the eruption of Mount Tambora. [2] In fact there is only a single instance of the word volcano in the entire poem, drop that and it reads like fallout because basically it was. [1] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43825/darkness-56d222aeeee1b https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43825/darkness-56d222... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_(poem) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_(poem) Edit: formatting & typo, duplicate link