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 The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut 
out in the awful storm!  
 The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut 
out in the awful storm! 
 Perhaps the wind
 Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,
  And all sad sounds are nature's read more 
 Perhaps the wind
 Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,
  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries
   For what has been and is not. 
 The winds that never moderation knew,
 Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
  Or out of read more 
 The winds that never moderation knew,
 Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
  Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge
   Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge. 
 The wind, the wandering wind
 Of the golden summer eyes--
  Whence is the thrilling magic
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 The wind, the wandering wind
 Of the golden summer eyes--
  Whence is the thrilling magic
   Of its tunes amongst the leaves?
    Oh, is it from the waters,
     Or from the long, tall grass?
      Or is it from the hollow rocks
       Through which its breathings pass? 
 Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind!
 Blow, blustering, freezing, piercing wind!
  Blow, that thy force I may read more 
 Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind!
 Blow, blustering, freezing, piercing wind!
  Blow, that thy force I may rehearse,
   While all my thoughts congeal to verse! 
 The hushed winds wail with feeble moan
 Like infant charity.  
 The hushed winds wail with feeble moan
 Like infant charity. 
 When the stormy winds do blow;
 When the battle rages loud and long,
  And the stormy winds read more 
 When the stormy winds do blow;
 When the battle rages loud and long,
  And the stormy winds do blow. 
 Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay
 In the gay woods and in the golden air,
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 Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay
 In the gay woods and in the golden air,
  Like to a good old age released from care,
   Journeying, in long serenity, away.
    In such a bright, late quiet, would that I
     Might wear out life like thee, mid bowers and brooks,
      And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks,
       And music of kind voices ever nigh;
        And when my last sand twinkled in the glass,
         Pass silently from men as thou dost pass. 
 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he 
stayeth his rough wind in the day read more 
 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he 
stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.