<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416781" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Cyclone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So lone I stood, the very trees seemed drawn<br>In conference with themselves.--Intense--intense<br>Seemed everything;--the summer splendor on<br>The sight,--magnificence!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A babe's life might not lighter fail and die<br>Than failed the sunlight--Though the hour was noon,<br>The palm of midnight might not lighter lie<br>Upon the brow of June.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With eyes upraised, I saw the underwings<br>Of swallows--gone the instant afterward--<br>While from the elms there came strange twitterings,<br>Stilled scarce ere they were heard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The river seemed to shiver; and, far down<br>Its darkened length, I saw the sycamores<br>Lean inward closer, under the vast frown<br>That weighed above the shores.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then was a roar, born of some awful burst!--<br>And one lay, shrieking, chattering, in my path--<br>Flung--he or I--out of some space accurst<br>As of Jehovah's wrath:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor barely had he wreaked his latest prayer,<br>Ere back the noon flashed o'er the ruin done,<br>And, o'er uprooted forests touseled there,<br>The birds sang in the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</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=416781" data-title="The Cyclone de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="So lone I stood, the very trees seemed drawn In conference with themselves.--Intense--intense Seemed everything;--the summer splendor on The sight,--magnificence! A babe's life might not lighter fail and die Than failed the sunlight--Though the h..."></div> </div> </div>

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