<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357598" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Heat-Wave</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Day after day, week after burning week,<br> A ruthless sun has sucked the forest dry.<br>Morn after anxious morn men's glances seek<br> The hills, hard-etched against a harder sky.<br> Gay blossoms droop and die.<br>Menace is here, as day draws to its peak,<br>And, 'mid the listless gums along the creek,<br>Hot little breezes sigh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To-day the threat took shape; the birds were dumb.<br>Once more, as sullen, savage morning broke,<br>The silence told that trembling fear had come,<br>To bird and beast and all the forest folk.<br>One little wisp of smoke<br>Far in the south behind the listless gum<br>Grew to a purple pall. Like some far drum,<br>A distant muttering broke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Red noon beheld red death come shouting o'er<br>These once green slopes-a leaping, living thing.<br>Touched by its breath, tree after tall tree wore<br> A fiery crown, as tho' to mock a king -<br> A ghastly blossoming<br>Of sudden flame that died and was no more.<br>And, where a proud old giant towered of yore,<br>Stood now a blackened thing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fierce raved the conquering flame, as demons rave,<br>Earth shook to thunders of the falling slain.<br>Brambles and bushes, once so gay and brave,<br>Shrank back, and writhed, and shrieked and shrieked again<br>Like sentient things in pain.<br>Gone from the forest all that kind spring gave…<br>And now, at laggard last, too late to save,<br> Comes soft, ironic rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357598" data-title="Heat-Wave de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Day after day, week after burning week, A ruthless sun has sucked the forest dry. Morn after anxious morn men's glances seek The hills, hard-etched against a harder sky. Gay blossoms droop and die. Menace is here, as day draws to its peak, And,..."></div> </div> </div>

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