Nightwind
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arkness like midnight from the sobbing woodsClamours with dismal tidings of the rain,Roaring as rivers breaking loose in floodsTo spread and foam and deluge all the plain.The cotter listens at his door again,Half doubting whether it be floods or wind,And through the thickening darkness looks afraid,Thinking of roads that travel has to findThrough night's black depths in danger's garb arrayed.And the loud glabber round the flaze soon stopsWhen hushed to silence by the lifted handOf fearing dame who hears the noise in dreadAnd thinks a deluge comes to drown the land;Nor dares she go to bed until the tempest drops.
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