john3859
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Wysłany: Śro 12:41, 16 Lut 2011 Temat postu: On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Published aaaadaos |
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in a torrent its freed waters leapt
On my distracted form
with deafening sound
Which sent me stunned and spinning to the ground
In painful and undignified surprise;
The curtains having deadened the wild cries
Wrung from me under such enforced surprise
No one had been aware of my sad plight.
As dripping
shivering with the sudden fright
I drew my wet clothes off and felt my way
For dry ones
longing for the light of day
As longs some sun-struck traveller
from whose sight
A momentary shock obscures the light.
The darkness so oppressive and intense
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Seemed round me an impenetrable fence
As well to physical as mental view
Deadening the intellect and reason too.
I could not long the awful state endure
So making a great effort to secure
A calmer mood
by sad experience taught
Why
what a fool I've been
at length I thought
To have forgotten like an arrant dunce
I've but to press the knob to have at once
The gas jet lit; so groping bit by bit
I reached it
pushed the knob
but no gas lit;
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