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POEMS, 65

��L. POWER.

"WOU cannot put a fire out ; - A thing that can ignite Can go, itself, without a fan Upon the slowest night.

You cannot fold a flood And put it in a drawer,

Because the winds would find it out, And tell your cedar floor.

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