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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHALLENGE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: You fools behind the panes who peer
Last Line: When the storm goes through the trees.
First Line: You fools behind the panes who peer
Last Line: When the storm goes through the trees.
YOU fools behind the panes who peer
At the strong black anger of the sky,
Come out and feel the storm swing by,
Aye, take its blow on your lips, and hear
The wind in the branches cry.
No. Leave us to the day's device,
Draw to your blinds and take your ease,
Grow peak'd in the face and crook'd in the knees;
Your sinews could not pay the price
When the storm goes through the trees.
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