<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</SPAN></span></p>
<h3><SPAN name="XVII" id="XVII"></SPAN>XVII</h3>
<h3><i>Tempest and Calm</i></h3>
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<span class="i0">First came the tempest, and the world was torn<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Upon its mighty passion—all the deep<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Trembled before it. From the haggard steep<br/></span>
<span class="i0">To the sweet valley with its brooding corn,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Its foaming lips in expletives of scorn<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Lashed into life the world’s eternal sleep;<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Then, caught with madness, in gigantic leap<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Expired upon the heights where it was born.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">And then a hush—the dripping, tender rain<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Falls in warm tears. The thunder could not wake<br/></span>
<span class="i4">The grief that silence in her soul has furled.<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Soft sighs the wind, the sea is gray with pain—<br/></span>
<span class="i2">The fulness of a heart too tense to break—<br/></span>
<span class="i4">And deep, unuttered sadness in the world.<br/></span></div>
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