"A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud……" — Robert Montgomery
"A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence around him thrown? With what a gloom the ush’ring scene appears! The leaves all shiv’ring with instinctive fears, The waters curling with a fellow dread, A veiling fervour round creation spread, And, last, the heavy rain’s reluctant shower, With big drops patt’ring on the tree and bower, While wizard shapes the bowing sky deform,— All mark the coming of the thunder-storm!"
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24 Quotes by Robert Montgomery
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Where beats a heart within a human breast, There be Thou present, and Thy power adored! And oh! since all…
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