A Thunder-Storm
Emily Dickinson
1830 to 1886
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The thunder hurried slow;
The wagons quickened on the streets,
And then, as if the hands
The lightning showed a yellow beak,
The dust did scoop itself like hands
And throw away the road.
That held the dams had parted hold,
The wind begun to rock the grass
And started all abroad;
A menace at the sky.
He flung a menace at the earth,
The cattle fled to barns;
With threatening tunes and low, —
The waters wrecked the sky,
There came one drop of giant rain,
Just quartering a tree.
The leaves unhooked themselves from trees
But overlooked my father's house,
The birds put up the bars to nests,
And then a livid claw.
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