“Loud roared the dreadful thunder,
The rain a deluge showers.”
Andrew Cherry (1762–1812) irish writer
The Bay of Biscay (lyrics, c. 1805), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Liste! now the thunder's rattling clymmynge sound
Cheves slowlie on, and then embollen clangs,
Shakes the hie spyre, and losst, dispended, drown'd,
Still on the gallard eare of terroure hanges;
The windes are up; the lofty elmen swanges;
Again the levynne and the thunder poures,
And the full cloudes are braste attenes in stonen showers.”
Stanza 6.
An Excelente Balade of Charitie
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Cheves slowlie on, and then embollen clangs,
Shakes the hie spyre, …" by Thomas Chatterton?
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Misattributed
Variant: Thoughts of his own death,
like the distant roll
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