The Laymans Breviary Or Meditations for Every Day in the Year
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231 That lives ! that moves ! divinely thinks and feels ! Hast made the universe to be for thee A living fount of beauty, love, and truth ! And filled with its rich powers and influences, Thou growest up its noble son, a man. XXVII. Fear of Thunder. It thunders ; godlike thunder ! speak yet more ! It lightens ; ravishing lightning ! flash yet more ! No other sound so vibrates through the breast As thunder s roar, the child s-talk of the clouds. O would but once Heaven speak a very word ! And wh...en I long have dwelt at home on earth, Long in the crowd of men forgot myself, And dream, I in a city live with king And beggars, human faces, forms, and speech, In a poor, narrow circle spellbound thus .... Once more it thunders, and the ancient sound Out of the hoary eld, electrically Hurls me to earth, and lo, I am at home, At home, indeed, in our old house of gods ! Then do my children gather round me all. A flash, a crash ! I tremble at the cloud That hangs down black and lowering o er our homes, " To feel thou rt in the power of a cloud !
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