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The Black Riders & Other Lines/The livid lightnings flashed in the clouds

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The livid lightnings flashed in the clouds
by Stephen Crane

This poem was published in 1905 in the volume The Black Rider & Other Lines.

4274The livid lightnings flashed in the cloudsStephen Crane

The livid lightnings flashed in the clouds;
The leaden thunders crashed.
A worshipper raised his arm.
"Hearken! Hearken! The voice of God!"

"Not so," said a man.
"The voice of God whispers in the heart
So softly
That the soul pauses,
Making no noise,
And strives for these melodies,
Distant, sighing, like faintest breath,
And all the being is still to hear."