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 Why, now blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark!
 The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.  
 Why, now blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark!
 The storm is up, and all is on the hazard. 
Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the read more
Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!"
 It is a tempest in a tumbler of water.
 [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.]  
 It is a tempest in a tumbler of water.
 [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.] 
Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
 Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow,
 You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
  Till you have drenched read more 
 Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow,
 You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
  Till you have drenched our steeples, downed the cocks. 
 Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
 War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
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 Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
 War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
  Making it momentany as a sound,
   Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
    Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
     That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
      And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
       The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
        So quick bright things come to confusion. 
 Roads are wet where'er one wendeth,
 And with rain the thistle bendeth,
  And the brook cries like read more 
 Roads are wet where'er one wendeth,
 And with rain the thistle bendeth,
  And the brook cries like a child!
   Not a rainbow shines to cheer us;
    Ah! the sun comes never near us,
     And the heavens look dark and wile. 
 He used to raise a storm in a teapot.
 [Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.]  
 He used to raise a storm in a teapot.
 [Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.]