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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT AND A CHILD, by NICK AARON FORD
First Line: Dark grey clouds massed themselves
Last Line: The child dreamed of heaven.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: Dark grey clouds massed themselves
Last Line: The child dreamed of heaven.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
Dark grey clouds massed themselves
Into martial battalions
And scudded angrily across the sky.
A little child peered out
Through an open window
To watch the awesome pageant.
Suddenly, a long spiral flash of lightning
Shot out from beneath the
Flitting dome of darkness,
Leaving in its wake
A mighty burst of thunder
Which reverberated
Through a thousand hidden caverns
And shook the earth.
The child, afraid,
Snatched down the window-blind.
The night wept.
A million tiny worlds
Scampered out from its swollen eyelids
And dashed themselves against the earth,
Spilling a flood of colorless blood
Upon the ground.
The music of the falling tears
Became a lullaby:
The child slept; the night smiled.
Angry clouds rushed away
To hide themselves
From the cheerful glances
Of a thousand twinkling, dancing eyes.
The queen of the sky
Rode out in her silvery chariot
And gazed upon the universe:
The child dreamed of Heaven.
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