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+------ Thema: Lang, John Dunmore: Sonnet, on the Conflagration of the Forest Around Sydney (/showthread.php?tid=20409)
Lang, John Dunmore: Sonnet, on the Conflagration of the Forest Around Sydney - ZaunköniG - 07.05.2012
John Dunmore Lang
1799 - 1878 Großbritannien / Australien
Sonnet, on the Conflagration of the Forest Around Sydney
FEARFUL I stood on the moss-covered rock
Whose rugged cliffs adorn our beauteous bay:
The forest blazed around, volumes of smoke
Towering to heaven obscured the face of day;
And as the red Sun shot his parting ray
Through the dense atmosphere, the lurid sky
Glowed with a fiercer flame-spreading dismay
As if the dreadful day of doom were nigh!
Alas! where shall the fear-struck sinner flee
From that great day's all-devastating blaze,
When the Earth burns, the hills melt to their base,
And with intensest heat boils the deep sea!
O then to stand upon the Rock of Ages,
While all around the conflagration rages!