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The Wlnd's Visit.

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The wind tapped like a tired man,     And like a host, "Come in,"     I boldly answered; entered then     My residence within     A rapid, footless guest,     To offer whom a chair     Were as impossible as hand     A sofa to the air.     No bone had he to bind him,     His speech was like the push     Of numerous humming-birds at once     From a superior bush.     His countenance a billow,     His fingers, if he pass,     Let go a music, as of tunes     Blown tremulous in glass.     He visited, still flitting;     Then, like a timid man,     Again he tapped -- 't was flurriedly --     And I became alone.

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