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[1] First came the peal that split the heavens apart / Straight overhead. Then silence. Then the rain; / Twelve miles of downward water like one dart, / And in one leap were launched along the plain, / To break the budding flower and flood the grain, / And keep with dripping sound an undersong / Amid the wheeling thunder all might long.
[2] He put his hands before his face. He stooped, / Blind with his hair. The loud drops' grim tattoo / Beat him to earth. Like summer grass he drooped, / Amazed, while sheeted lightning large and blue / Blinked wide and pricked and quivering eyeball through. / Then, scrambling to his feet, with downward head / He fought into the tempest as chance led.