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AN INCIDENT OF THE FLOOD IN MASSACHUSETTS ON MAY	A
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NO song of a soldier riding down	B
To the raging fight from Winchester town	B
No song of a time that shook the earth	C
With the nations' throe at a nation's birth	C
But the song of a brave man free from fear	D
As Sheridan's self or Paul Revere	D
Who risked what they risked free from strife	E
And its promise of glorious pay his life	E
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The peaceful valley has waked and stirred	F
And the answering echoes of life are heard	F
The dew still clings to the trees and grass	G
And the early toilers smiling pass	G
As they glance aside at the white walled homes	H
Or up the valley where merrily comes	I
The brook that sparkles in diamond rills	I
As the sun comes over the Hampshire hills	I
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What was it that passed like an ominous breath	J
Like a shiver of fear or a touch of death	J
What was it The valley is peaceful still	K
And the leaves are afire on top of the hill	K
It was not a sound nor a thing of sense	I
But a pain like the pang of the short suspense	I
That thrills the being of those who see	I
At their feet the gulf of Eternity	I
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The air of the valley has felt the chill	K
The workers pause at the door of the mill	K
The housewife keen to the shivering air	L
Arrests her foot on the cottage stair	L
Instinctive taught by the mother love	M
And thinks of the sleeping ones above	M
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Why start the listeners Why does the course	I
Of the mill stream widen Is it a horse	I
Hark to the sound of his hoofs they say	I
That gallops so wildly Williamsburg way	I
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God what was that like a human shriek	N
From the winding valley Will nobody speak	N
Will nobody answer those women who cry	O
As the awful warnings thunder by	O
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Whence come they Listen And now they hear	P
The sound of the galloping horsehoofs near	D
They watch the trend of the vale and see	I
The rider who thunders so menacingly	I
With waving arms and warning scream	Q
To the home filled banks of the valley stream	Q
He draws no rein but he shakes the street	R
With a shout and the ring of the galloping feet	R
And this the cry he flings to the wind	S
'To the hills for your lives The flood is behind '	-
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He cries and is gone but they know the worst	T
The breast of the Williamsburg dam has burst	T
The basin that nourished their happy homes	I
Is changed to a demon It comes it comes	I
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A monster in aspect with shaggy front	U
Of shattered dwellings to take the brunt	U
Of the homes they shatter white maned and hoarse	I
The merciless Terror fills the course	I
Of the narrow valley and rushing raves	I
With death on the first of its hissing waves	I
Till cottage and street and crowded mill	K
Are crumbled and crushed	V
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But onward still	K
In front of the roaring flood is heard	F
The galloping horse and the warning word	F
Thank God the brave man's life is spared	W
From Williamsburg town he nobly dared	W
To race with the flood and take the road	X
In front of the terrible swath it mowed	X
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For miles it thundered and crashed behind	S
But he looked ahead with a steadfast mind	S
'They must be warned ' was all he said	Y
As away on his terrible ride he sped	Y
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When heroes are called for bring the crown	B
To this Yankee rider send him down	B
On the stream of time with the Curtius old	Z
His deed as the Roman's was brave and bold	Z
And the tale can as noble a thrill awake	A2
For he offered his life for the people's sake	A2

John Boyle O'reilly

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