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The Wind.

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Of all the sounds despatched abroad,     There's not a charge to me     Like that old measure in the boughs,     That phraseless melody     The wind does, working like a hand     Whose fingers brush the sky,     Then quiver down, with tufts of tune     Permitted gods and me.     When winds go round and round in bands,     And thrum upon the door,     And birds take places overhead,     To bear them orchestra,     I crave him grace, of summer boughs,     If such an outcast be,     He never heard that fleshless chant     Rise solemn in the tree,     As if some caravan of sound     On deserts, in the sky,     Had broken rank,     Then knit, and passed     In seamless company.

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