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DARK BAMBOOS by CLIFFORD GESSLER

First Line: THE DARK BAMBOOS AGAINST THE SULLEN SKY'
Last Line: AND DARK BAMBOOS AGAINST THE SULLEN SKY.
Subject(s): BAMBOO; WINTER;
"The dark bamboos against the sullen sky" . . .
They trace a pattern angular and intricate
And pitilessly graceful, in the undulate
Swift flowing of the dusk, remote and dim.

Surely there is winter in this wind tonight,
Where winter never comes, . . . in the low clashing
Of stiff bamboos, the interminable dashing
Of waves on waves of wind, poured out like grain.

And there is winter in the voice of him
Who sits beneath, and sings the disconsolate
And plaintive strains of @3Willows in the rain@1
And @3Dark bamboos against the sullen sky@1.



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