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TOCCATA IN D MINOR (BACH) by SUSAN D'ARCY CLARK

First Line: BREAKERS INSISTENT, MASSIVE, PERSISTENT
Last Line: ROLLERS—FAR OUT IN THE NIGHT.
Subject(s): BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN (1685-1750); COMPOSERS; MUSIC & MUSICIANS;

Breakers insistent, massive, persistent—
Thunder the grandeur of life;
Gaining momentum, starkly resistant,
Nature unleashed—and at strife.

Unbaffled, receding, leaving a seaboard
Tidewashed, but flooded with light;
Sighing, unheeding, weaving a D chord,
Rollers—far out in the night.



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