THE SEASONS |
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Down comes the deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain. Wide-rent, the clouds Pour a whole flood, and yet, its flame unquenched, Th’ unconquerable lightning struggles through. Ragged and fierce, or in red whirling balls. And fires the mountains with redoubled rage. Black from the stroke, above, the smould’ring pine Stands a sad shattered trunk; and, starched below, A lifeless group the blasted cattle lie.
James Thompson, “The Seasons” (1727) |