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The Storm.

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There came a wind like a bugle;     It quivered through the grass,     And a green chill upon the heat     So ominous did pass     We barred the windows and the doors     As from an emerald ghost;     The doom's electric moccason     That very instant passed.     On a strange mob of panting trees,     And fences fled away,     And rivers where the houses ran     The living looked that day.     The bell within the steeple wild     The flying tidings whirled.     How much can come     And much can go,     And yet abide the world!

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