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قراءة كتاب The Passing of the Storm and Other Poems

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The Passing of the Storm and Other Poems

The Passing of the Storm and Other Poems

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Mortality 132

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  Facing Page
"The mountains lay in calm repose
Slumbering 'neath their robes of white."		 Title.
"As stormy cowls their summits hid." 17
"Exceeding the tremendous height
Of brother peaks, on left and right."		 26
"Beseamed with countless scars and rents
From combat with the elements."		 30
"He towered with mute and massive form
A challenge to the gathering storm."		 40
"With swift and spoliating flow,
Uprooting many a noble tree,
To strew the desert's waste below,
With scattered drift-wood and debris."		 50
"Arrayed in Nature's pristine dress
This was, indeed, a wilderness."		 62
"We grew as two twin pines might grow,
Upon some isolated edge,
Of some lone precipice or ledge."		 70
"The noble spruce and stately fir
Stood draped in feathery garniture."		 114
"From the mountain peaks crested with snow 120
"High up on the cliffs in their dwellings
Which were apertures walled up with rocks,
Lived this people, sequestered and happy;
Their dwellings now serve the wild fox."		 126
"As it fearlessly leaps o'er the rocky wall
From the mountain peaks stern and hoary."		 130
"I love the lake in the mountain's lap." 134

As stormy cowls their summits hid.

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The Passing of the Storm

I. THE STORM

Reflecting, in their crystal snows,
The glittering jewels of the night,
The mountains lay in calm repose
Slumbering 'neath their robes of white.
The stars grew dim,—a film instead,
The twinkling heavens overspread,
Through which their eyes essayed to peer,
Each moment less distinct and clear,
Till, when the stellar beacons failed,
A darkness unrelieved, prevailed.
Out of the ambient depths of gloom,
Bereft of its accustomed bloom,
Came day-break, comfortless and gray.
Sped the nocturnal shades away,
Unveiling, with their winged retreat,
A twilight sad and incomplete.
Reluctantly, as dawn aspired,
The shadows lingered, then retired
As vanquished armies often yield
Upon a well-contested field,
And sullenly retrace their course
Before an overwhelming force.

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