Miriam Tazewell
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hen Miriam Tazewell heard the tempest bursting,And his wrathy whips across the sky drawn crackling,She stuffed her ears for fright like a young thing,And with heart full of the flowers, went to weeping. But the earth shook dry his old back in good season, He had weathered storms that drenched him deep as this one,And the sun, Miriam, ascended to his dominion,
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