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Written On A Stormy Night.

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O wild and dark! a night hath found me now     Wherein I mingle with that element     Sent madly loose through the wide staring rent     In yon tormented branches! I will bow     A while unto the storm, and thenceforth grow     Into a mighty patience strongly bent     Before the unconquering Power which hither sent     These winds to fight their battles on my brow!--     Again the loud boughs thunder! and the din     Licks up my footfall from the hissing earth!     But I have found a mighty peace within,     And I have risen into a home of mirth!     Wildly I climb above the shaking spires,     Above the sobbing clouds, up through the steady fires!

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"O wild and dark! a night hath found me now..."

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