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Clouds.

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All through the tepid Summer night      The starless sky had poured a cool     Monotony of pleasant rain      In music beautiful.     And for an hour I'd sat to watch      Clouds moving on majestic feet,     Had heard down avenues of night      Their hearts of thunder beat;     Saw ponderous limbs far-veined with gold      Pulse fiery life o'er wood and plain,     While scattered, fell from monstrous palms      The largess of the rain;     Beholding at each lightning's flash      The generous silver on the sod,     In meek devotion bowed, I thanked      These almoners of God.

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