“Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies.”

—  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Flames in the forehead of the morning sky", John Milton, Lycidas, line 168.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)

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