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The Hurricane<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord of the winds! I feel thee nigh,
\nI know thy breath in the burning sky!
\nAnd I wait, with a thrill in every vein,
\nFor the coming of the hurricane!<\/p>\n

And lo! on the wing of the heavy gales,
\nThrough the boundless arch of heaven he sails;
\nSilent and slow, and terribly strong,
\nThe mighty shadow is borne along,
\nLike the dark eternity to come;
\nWhile the world below, dismayed and dumb,
\nThrough the calm of the thick hot atmosphere
\nLooks up at its gloomy folds with fear.<\/p>\n

They darken fast; and the golden blaze
\nOf the sun is quenched in the lurid haze,
\nAnd he sends through the shade a funeral ray\u2014
\nA glare that is neither night nor day,
\nA beam that touches, with hues of death,
\nThe clouds above and the earth beneath.
\nTo its covert glides the silent bird,
\nWhile the hurricane\u2019s distant voice is heard,
\nUplifted among the mountains round,
\nAnd the forests hear and answer the sound.<\/p>\n

He is come! he is come! do ye not behold
\nHis ample robes on the wind unrolled?
\nGiant of air! we bid thee hail!\u2014
\nHow his gray skirts toss in the whirling gale;
\nHow his huge and writhing arms are bent,
\nTo clasp the zone of the firmament,
\nAnd fold at length, in their dark embrace,
\nFrom mountain to mountain the visible space.<\/p>\n

Darker\u2014still darker! the whirlwinds bear
\nThe dust of the plains to the middle air:
\nAnd hark to the crashing, long and loud,
\nOf the chariot of God in the thunder-cloud!
\nYou may trace its path by the flashes that start
\nFrom the rapid wheels where\u2019er they dart,
\nAs the fire-bolts leap to the world below,
\nAnd flood the skies with a lurid glow.<\/p>\n

What roar is that?\u2014\u2019tis the rain that breaks
\nIn torrents away from the airy lakes,
\nHeavily poured on the shuddering ground,
\nAnd shedding a nameless horror round.
\nAh! well known woods, and mountains, and skies,
\nWith the very clouds!\u2014ye are lost to my eyes.
\nI seek ye vainly, and see in your place
\nThe shadowy tempest that sweeps through space,
\nA whirling ocean that fills the wall
\nOf the crystal heaven, and buries all.
\nAnd I, cut off from the world, remain
\nAlone with the terrible hurricane.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u2014William Cullen Bryant, 1854
Painting Credit B.F. Gribble, Clipper in Stormy Sea, nd, oil <\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

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