<h3> <SPAN name="warrior"></SPAN> THE WARRIOR WIND </h3>
<p class="poem">
Once more the wind leaps from the sullen land<br/>
With his old battle-cry.<br/>
A tree bends darkly where the wall looms high;<br/>
Its tortured branches, like a grisly hand,<br/>
Clutch at the sky.<br/></p>
<p class="poem">
Grey towers rise from gloom and underneath—<br/>
Black-barred and strong—<br/>
The snarling windows guard their ancient wrong;<br/>
But the mad wind shakes them, hissing through his teeth<br/>
A battle song.<br/></p>
<p class="poem">
O bitter is the challenge that he flings<br/>
At bars and bolts and keys.<br/>
Torn with the cries of vanished centuries<br/>
And curses hurled at long-forgotten kings<br/>
Beyond dim seas.<br/></p>
<p class="poem">
The wind alone, of all the gods of old,<br/>
Men could not chain.<br/>
O wild wind, brother to my wrath and pain,<br/>
Like you, within a restless heart I hold<br/>
A hurricane.<br/></p>
<p class="poem">
The wind has known the dungeons of the past<br/>
Knows all that are;<br/>
And in due time will strew their dust afar,<br/>
And singing, he will shout their doom at last<br/>
To a laughing star.<br/></p>
<p class="poem">
O cleansing warrior wind, stronger than death,<br/>
Wiser than men may know;<br/>
O smite these stubborn walls and lay them low,<br/>
Uproot and rend them with your mighty breath—<br/>
Blow, wild wind, blow!<br/></p>
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