“The old
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
Should weep?”
"Night Winds".
Verses (1915)
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Or an old dependency of day and night,
Or island solitude, unsponsored, free,
Of that wide water, inescapable.
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Whistle about us their spontaneous cries;
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At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
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