The Wind in a Frolic

The wind one morning sprang up from sleep,

Saying, “Now for a frolic! now for a leap!

Now for a madcap galloping chase!

I’ll make a commotion in every place!”

So it swept with a bustle right through a great town,

Creaking the signs and scattering down

Shutters; and whisking, with merciless squalls,

Old women’s bonnets and gingerbread stalls.

There never was heard a much lustier shout,