“I’m not a chicken; I have seen
Full many a chill September,
And though I was a youngster then,
That gale I well remember;
The day before, my kite-string snapped,
And I, my kite pursuing,
The wind whisked off my palm-leaf hat;--
For me two storms were brewing!”
— from the poem “The September Gale” by Oliver Wendell Holmes #chicken #poetry #perfectpoem #storms #rain #thunderstorm #september #wind
Full many a chill September,
And though I was a youngster then,
That gale I well remember;
The day before, my kite-string snapped,
And I, my kite pursuing,
The wind whisked off my palm-leaf hat;--
For me two storms were brewing!”
— from the poem “The September Gale” by Oliver Wendell Holmes #chicken #poetry #perfectpoem #storms #rain #thunderstorm #september #wind
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