The Cloud
Deborah Stokol
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I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams I bear light shade for the leaves when laid in their noonday dreams From my wings are shaken The dews that waken The sweet buds, every one When rocked to rest On their mother's breast As she dances about the sun I wield the flail Of the lashing hail And whiten the green plains under And then again I dissolve it in rain And laugh as I pass in thunder I sift the snow On the mountains below And their great pines grown aghast And all the night 'Tis my pillow white While I sleep in the arms of the blast Sublime on the towers Of my skiey bowers Lightning, my pilot, sits In a cavern under Is fettered the thunder It struggles and howls at fits Over earth and ocean With gentle motion This pilot is guiding me Lured by the love Of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea That orbèd maiden With white fire laden Whom mortals call the moon Glides glimmering over My fleece-like floor By the midnight breezes strewn I laugh to see them whirl and flee like a swarm of golden bees When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent Till calm rivers, lakes, and seas Like strips of the sky fallen Through me on high And each paved with the moon and these I am the daughter Of earth and water And the nursling of the sky I pass through the pores Of the ocean and shores I change, but I cannot die For after the rain When with never a stain The pavilion of heaven is bare And the winds and sunbeams With their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air I silent laugh At my own cenotaph And out of the caverns of rain Like a child from the womb Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again Like a child from the womb Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again Like a child from the womb Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again Like a child from the womb Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again Like a child from the womb Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again Like a child from the womb Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again Like a child from the womb Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again Like a child from the womb Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again
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