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POETRY.
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THE RAINBOW , The evening was glorious ; and light through the trees , play'd the sunshinei and rain-drops , the birds and the breeze ; The landscape outstretching , in loveliness lay , On the lap of the year , in the beauty of May . For the Queen of the Spring , as she passed down the vale , Left her robe on the trees , and her breath on the gale ; And the smile of her promise gave joy to the hours , And , rank in her footsteps , sprang herbage and flowers . The skies , like a banner in sunset unroll'd , O'er the west , threw the splendour of azure and gold ; But one cloud , at a distance , rose dense and increased , Till its margin of black touch'd the zenith and east .
We gazed on the scenes , while around us they glow'd , When a vision of beauty appear ed on the cloud ; Twas not like the sun as at mid-day we view , Nor the moon that rolls nightly through star-light and blue .
Like a spirit it came , in the van of the storm , And the eye and the heart hail'd its beautiful form ; For it look'd not severe like an angel of wrath , But its garment of brightness illumM its dark path .
In the hues of its grandeur , sublimely it stood O ' er the river , the village , the fields , and the wood : And river , fields , village , and woodlands grew bright , As conscious they felt and afforded delight .
Twas the bow of Omnipotence , bent in His hand , Whose grasp at creation the universe spann'd ; 'Twas the presence of God , in a symbol sublime , His vow from the flood to the exit of time .
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Not dreadful , as when in the whirlwind he pleads , When storms are his chariots and lightnings his steeds ; The black clouds , his banners Of vengeance unfurl'd , And thunder , his voice , to a guilt-stricken world : — In the breath of his presence , when thousands expire , And seas boil with fury , and rocks burn with fire , And the sword and the plague-spot whh death strew the plain , And vultures and wolves are the graves of the slain . Awhile—and it sweetly bent over the gloom , Like Love o ' er a death couch , or Hope o ' er the tomb ; Then left the dark scene , whence it slowly retired , As Love had just vanish'd , and Hope had
expird . I gazed not alone on that source of my song ; To all who beheld it these verses belong ; Its presence to all was the path of the Lord :
Each full heart expanded , grew warm , and ador'd . Like a visit , the converse of friends , and a day , That bow from my sight passed for ever away : Like that visit , that converse , that day ,
on my heart , That bow from remembrance can never depart . . "• 'Tis a picture in memory , distinctly defin'd With the strong and unperishing colours of mind ; A part of my being , beyond my controul , Beheld on that cloud , and transcrib'd on my soul . Near Sheffield . 1820 . J . H .
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——^ arnmm ^ - — " A VISION OF JUDGMENT . " Man ! thou art mad ! thou art mad r lunatic never was madder ; " Otherwise else , be sure thy doom had now been appointed : " *
* From the " Vision , "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/55/
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