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L. Power.

YOU cannot put a fire out;
        A thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a fan
        Upon the slowest night.

You cannot fold a flood
        And put it in a drawer, --
Because the winds would find it out,
        And tell your cedar floor.

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