applause

thunderstorm

is that which should be enjoyed but never quite believed.

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it. (Robert Montgomery)

is the eloquence of heaven, when every cloud is from its slumber riven.

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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Robert Montgomery