“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).
“The spray falls in a rain and from afar shrouds the vessel in a watery deluge.”
— Gaius Valerius Flaccus, book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica, Book IV, Lines 665–666
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