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The farthest Thunder
that I heard
Was nearer than the
Sky
And rumbles still -
though Torrid Noons
Have lain their
Missiles by -
The Lightning that
preceded it
Struck no one but
myself
And I would not
exchange the Flash
Bolt
For all the rest of
Life -
Indebtedness to Oxygen
[The
The Chemist may repay -
can repay -
But not the obligation
To Electricity -
It founds the Homes
And decks the Days
And every clamor
bright
Is but the gleam
concomitant
Of that waylaying
Light -
The Scene was -
Thought is quiet
as a Flake -
A Crash without a
sound -
how -
That Life's reverberation
It's explanation found -
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