"What the Thunder Said" Annotations
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==Stanza 5== | ==Stanza 5== | ||
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A woman drew her long black hair out tight | A woman drew her long black hair out tight | ||
And fiddled whisper music on those strings | And fiddled whisper music on those strings | ||
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And bats with baby faces in the violet light 380 | And bats with baby faces in the violet light 380 | ||
Whistled, and beat their wings | Whistled, and beat their wings | ||
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall | And crawled head downward down a blackened wall | ||
And upside down in air were towers | And upside down in air were towers | ||
| − | + | Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours | |
| − | + | And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells. | |
==Stanza 6== | ==Stanza 6== | ||
