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THE STORM by HENRY VAUGHAN

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First Line: I SEE THE USE: AND KNOW MY BLOOD
Last Line: BOTH WASH AND WING MY SOUL.

I see the use: and know my blood
Is not a sea,
But a shallow, bounded flood
Though red as he;
Yet have I flows, as strong as his,
And boiling streams that rave
With the same curling force and hiss,
As doth the mountained wave.

2

But when his waters billow thus,
Dark storms and wind
Incite them to that fierce discuss,
Else not inclined,
Thus the enlarged, enraged air
Uncalms these to a flood,
But still the weather that's most fair
Breeds tempests in my blood;


3

Lord, then round me with weeping clouds,
And let my mind
In quick blasts sigh beneath those shrouds
A spirit-wind,
So shall that storm purge this @3Recluse@1
Which sinful ease made foul,
And @3wind@1 and @3water@1 to thy use
Both @3wash@1 and @3wing@1 my soul.



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