The Winds drew off like hungry dogs

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

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THE Winds drew off

Like hungry dogs

Defeated of a bone.

Through fissures in

Volcanic cloud

The yellow lightning shown.

The trees held up

Their mangled limbs

Like animals in pain,

When Nature falls

Upon herself,

Beware an Austrian!

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