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The Wind begun
to rock the Grass
With threatening
Tunes and low -
He threw a Menace
at the Earth -
Another, at the
Sky -
The Leaves
unhooked themselves
from Trees
And started
all abroad -
The Dust did
scoop itself like
Hands
And throw away
the Road -
The Wagons
quickened on the
streets
The Thunder
hurried slow -
The Lightning
showed a yellow
Beak
And then a
livid Claw -
The Birds put
up the Bars
to Nests -
The Cattle
clung to Barns -
Then came one
Drop of Giant
Rain
And then as
if the Hands
That held the
Dams, had
parted hold,
The Waters
wrecked the Sky,
But overlooked
My Father's House -
Just quartering
a Tree -
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