James Montgomery Quote

The crocodile, the dragon of the waters, In iron panoply, fell as the plague, And merciless as famine, cranch'd his prey, While from his jaws, with dreadful fangs all serried, The life-blood dyed the waves with deadly streams.


The Poetical Works of James Montgomery, The Pelican Island


The crocodile, the dragon of the waters, In iron panoply, fell as the plague, And merciless as famine, cranch'd his prey, While from his jaws, with...

The crocodile, the dragon of the waters, In iron panoply, fell as the plague, And merciless as famine, cranch'd his prey, While from his jaws, with...

The crocodile, the dragon of the waters, In iron panoply, fell as the plague, And merciless as famine, cranch'd his prey, While from his jaws, with...

The crocodile, the dragon of the waters, In iron panoply, fell as the plague, And merciless as famine, cranch'd his prey, While from his jaws, with...