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Sara Teasdale

The panther wind
 Leaps out of the night,
The snake of lightning
 Is twisting and white,
The lion of thunder
 Roars—and we
Sit still and content
 Under a tree —
We have met fate together
 And love and pain,
Why should we fear
 The wrath of the rain!

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From Flame and Shadow | Macmillian, 1920

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