<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416177" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Flash at Midnight</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The flash at midnight! - 'twas a light<br>That gave the blind a moment's sight<br>Then sank in tenfold gloom;<br>Loud, deep, and long, the thunder broke,<br>The deaf ear instantly awoke,<br>Then closed as in the tomb:<br>An angel might have passed my bed,<br>Sounded the trump of God, and fled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So life appears; - a sudden birth,<br>A glance revealing heaven and earth<br>It is - and it is not!<br>So fame the poet's hope deceives,<br>Who sings for after time, and leaves<br>A name - to be forgot,<br>Life - is a lightning-flash of breath;<br>Fame - but a thunder clap at death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Montgomery">James Montgomery</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416177" data-title="The Flash at Midnight de James Montgomery" data-description="The flash at midnight! - 'twas a light That gave the blind a moment's sight Then sank in tenfold gloom; Loud, deep, and long, the thunder broke, The deaf ear instantly awoke, Then closed as in the tomb: An angel might have passed my bed, Sounded t..."></div> </div> </div>

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