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Discord In Childhood

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Outside the house an ash-tree hung its terrible whips,     And at night when the wind arose, the lash of the tree     Shrieked and slashed the wind, as a ship's     Weird rigging in a storm shrieks hideously.     Within the house two voices arose in anger, a slender lash     Whistling delirious rage, and the dreadful sound     Of a thick lash booming and bruising, until it drowned     The other voice in a silence of blood, 'neath the noise of the ash.

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