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SPRING FLOODS (IN NORMANDY), by                    
First Line: A power is in the floods awake
Last Line: A city by a sea.
Subject(s): Floods; Normandy, France


A power is in the floods awake,
Whose wind-swept waters shirk and cringe,
And rally, breaking to a fringe;
The river lost in its own lake;
The old year's crows' nests, and the pollards drowned,
Like creels adrift, a floating commonweal.
The mill is flooded to the wheel.
The farms are flooded, mound by mound;
Like rafts they seem to us (who pass and flee),
And tided out from land, and drifting down
To towers and a town --
A city by a sea.





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