Convulsions came; and, where the field
 Long slept in pastoral green,
A goblin-mountain was upheaved
(Sure the scared sense was all deceived),
 Marl-glen and slag-ravine.
 
The unreserve of Ill was there,
 The clinkers in her last retreat;
But, ere the eye could take it in,
Or mind could comprehension win,
 It sunk! — and at our feet.
 
So, then, Solidity's a crust —
 The core of fire below;
All may go well for many a year,
But who can think without a fear
 Of horrors that happen so?

—Herman Melville, "The Apparition (A Retrospect)"

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Have a blessed Memorial Day! —JSL