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Wind beloved of earth and sky and sea beyond all winds
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AN AUTUMN VISION.
The stern salutation of sorrow to death or repentance to
shame
Was all that the season was wont to accord her of grace
or acclaim;
No lightnings of love and of laughter.
But here, in the laugh of the loud west wind from
around and above,
In the flash of the waters beneath him, what sound or
what light but of love
Rings round him or leaps forth after?
II.
that blow,
Wind whose might in fight was England's on her
mightiest warrior day,
South-west wind, whose breath for her was life, and fire
to scourge her foe,
Steel to smite and death to drive him down an
unreturning way,
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