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The blazing star, Threat'ning the world with famine, plague, and war; To princes death; to kingdoms many curses; To all estates inevitable losses; To herdsmen rot; to ploughmen hapless seasons; To sailors storms; to cities civil treasons. Although comets are no longer regarded with superstitious awe as in old times, mystery still clings to them.
Not him the fame Of deities, the lightning's forky flame, Or muttering murmurs of the threat'ning sky Repressed; but roused his soul's great energy To break the bars that interposing lay, And through the gates of nature burst his way.
"Here, in cabal, a disputatious crew Each evening meet; the sot, the cheat, the shrew; Riots are nightly heard: the curse, the cries Of beaten wife, perverse in her replies, While shrieking children hold each threat'ning hand, And sometimes life, and sometimes food demand; Boys, in their first-stol'n rags, to swear begin; And girls, who heed not dress, are skill'd in gin."
Lightening doth generally preceed thunder, and stormes, raine; and stroaks do not often fall till after threat'ning. Yellow leaves argue the want of Sap, and gray haires want of moisture; so dry and saplesse performances are symptoms of little spirituall vigor.
How canst Thou lie asleep, When each moment so madly is threat'ning A grave in the angry deep?" Sweetly, yet mysteriously and sadly, the notes of the song floated on the evening breeze down to the valley. Once, when the lady tried the song for the first time, thousands of people cried.
Sweet, it was saucy LOVE, not humble I. But no 'scuse serves; she makes her wrath appear In beauty's throne see now, who dares come near Those scarlet judges, threat'ning bloody pain? O heav'nly Fool, thy most kiss-worthy face Anger invests with such a lovely grace, That anger's self I needs must kiss again.
For though thou mayst imagine in thy heart That God is this or that, yet if thou art At all besides the truth of what he is, And so dost build thy hope for life amiss, Still he the same abideth, and will be The same, the same for ever unto thee. As God is true unto his promise, so Unto his threat'ning he is faithful too.
I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds Have riv'd the knotty oaks; and I have seen The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam, To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds: But never till to-night, never till now Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. Thursday, September 28th, A fine bright morning, with a strong, fair wind.
But when dark clouds and threat'ning storms arise, And doubt and fear my trembling soul invade; My heart one comfort owns, thou art not here, Safe slumbering, in the earth's kind bosom laid." She was happier far than the author of these lines.
"Such authority, in shew, When most severe and minist'ring all its force, Is but the graver countenance of love, Whose favour, like the clouds of spring may lower, And utter now and then an awful voice, But has a blessing in its darkest frown, Threat'ning at once and nourishing the plant." Thomson.
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