“On such a night, when Air has loosed
Its guardian grasp on blood and brain,
Old terrors then of god or ghost
Creep from their caves to life again.”

—  Robert Seymour Bridges

Low Barometer http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2934.html, st. 2 (1926). <br class="br">Poetry

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