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All night and all day the wind roared in the trees,
Until I could think there were waves rolling high as my bedroom floor;
When I stood at the window, an elm bough swept to my knees;
The blue spruce lashed like a surf at the door.

The second dawn I would not have believed:
The oak stood with each leaf stiff as a bell.
When I looked at the altered scene, my eye was undeceived,
But my ear still kept the sound of the sea like a shell.

Member poem of the day

Melancholy moonbeams cascade
over a lattice of canopies
of the overhanging trees,
like millions of sparkling snakes  
slithering over the surface
of the silent water of the lake.

A sense of bodeful uneasiness
flooded into my solitary soul;

When love is lost
No one and nothing could hurt more,
No one and nothing pleases ever.

In how many varied places 
do I profess my love?
In how many ways
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