The air broke into a mist with bells,

The old walls rocked with the crowd and cries.

Had I said, “Good folk, mere noise repels,

But give me your sun from yonder skies!”

They had answered “And afterward what else?”

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A Parody.

It was pouring, pouring, all the way,

As we scampered along the road like mad;

The trees were a mist of shadows grey