Note 53 — Chapter IV
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"With Franklin grasp the lightning's fiery wing," is a line in Thomas Campbell's Pleasures of Hope. In his Age of Bronze, Byron asks in one place why the Atlantic should "gird a tyrant's grave"
"While Franklin's quiet memory climbs to heaven, Calming the lightning which he thence hath riven."
And in another place in the same poem he speaks of
"Stoic Franklin's energetic shade, Robed in the lightnings which his hand allayed."
Crabbe in his tribute to "Divine Philosophy" in the Library exclaims,
"'Tis hers the lightning from the clouds to call, And teach the fiery mischief where to fall."