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THE LATE THUNDER STORM WHILE IN CA AT CONCORD, N. C., JUNE 20, 1865.
'Twas like the peals on Sinai's hill,
When all the humble plains were still,
Which trembled from the thunder's voice,
Too dread for heathen to rejoice,
But shudder at the sound;
The lightning streaming from his eyes,
Rent as it broke through all the skies,
Its headlong course the world defies,
From which the affrightened creature flies,
For shelter in the ground.
When all the humble plains were still,
Which trembled from the thunder's voice,
Too dread for heathen to rejoice,
But shudder at the sound;
The lightning streaming from his eyes,
Rent as it broke through all the skies,
Its headlong course the world defies,
From which the affrightened creature flies,
For shelter in the ground.
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Out from his mouth went tones of death,
All nature kindled from his breath,
From land to land the rupture spread,
And bade all living creatures dread
August Jehovah's ire;
Ye cedars of the mountain brake,
Ye summits reel, ye vallies shake,
Ye hidden beasts your dens forsake,
And ye who dare to sleep, awake
From unextinguished fire.
All nature kindled from his breath,
From land to land the rupture spread,
And bade all living creatures dread
August Jehovah's ire;
Ye cedars of the mountain brake,
Ye summits reel, ye vallies shake,
Ye hidden beasts your dens forsake,
And ye who dare to sleep, awake
From unextinguished fire.
From Teman thus Jehovah came,
And all the fields were wrapp'd in flame;
Thus did the world his wrath provoke;
The air was darkened with the smoke,
Who can his wrath abide?
The leopard hastened to the rock,
Whilst every creature felt the shock,
'Twas death among the grazing stock,
Astonished were the scattered flock,
Which sought in vain to hide.
And all the fields were wrapp'd in flame;
Thus did the world his wrath provoke;
The air was darkened with the smoke,
Who can his wrath abide?
The leopard hastened to the rock,
Whilst every creature felt the shock,
'Twas death among the grazing stock,
Astonished were the scattered flock,
Which sought in vain to hide.
All ether seemed a fun'ral shroud,
The concave vaults were stern with cloud,
The lightenings leap, the thunders roll,
And earth seems rent from pole to pole,
The mountains bowed beneath;
His nostrils breathed the livid stream,
The air was scorched before the flame;
The thunder acclimates the same,
Aloud to spread Jehovah's fame,
And load the heavens with death.
The concave vaults were stern with cloud,
The lightenings leap, the thunders roll,
And earth seems rent from pole to pole,
The mountains bowed beneath;
His nostrils breathed the livid stream,
The air was scorched before the flame;
The thunder acclimates the same,
Aloud to spread Jehovah's fame,
And load the heavens with death.
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