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ELEGIAC SONNET: 59. WRITTEN DURING REMARKABLE THUNDER STORM, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: What awful pageants crowd the evening sky!
Last Line: Smiles at the tumult of the troubled earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Storms


IN WHICH THE MOON WAS PERFECTLY CLEAR, WHILE THE TEMPEST GATHERED IN VARIOUS
DIRECTIONS NEAR THE EARTH

What awful pageants crowd the evening sky!
The low horizon gathering vapours shroud;
Sudden, from many a deep-embattled cloud
Terrific thunders burst, and lightnings fly --
While in serenest azure, beaming high,
Night's regent, of her calm pavilion proud,
Gilds the dark shadows that beneath her lie,
Unvex'd by all their conflicts fierce and loud.
-- So, in unsullied dignity elate,
A spirit conscious of superior worth,
In placid elevation firmly great,
Scorns the vain cares that give Contention birth;
And blest with peace above the shocks of Fate,
Smiles at the tumult of the troubled earth.





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