Philip James de Loutherbourg's An Avalanche in the Alps (1803)

 

Ye toppling crags of ice!

Ye avalanches, whom a breath draws down

In mountainous o'erwhelming, come and crush me!

I hear ye momently above, beneath,

Crash with a frequent conflict; but ye pass,

And only fall on things that still would live.

--Byron, Manfred

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