The Cloud before the Storm

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Document Title: The Cloud before the Storm

Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Date of Composition: 1848

Type of Manuscript: fair copy corrected

Scribe: DGR

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Manuscript Addition: (8 m.)

Editorial Description: Notation at lower right indicating it was written in eight minutes.

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35. The Cloud before the Storm.

But before going out, she took her stand
At the wide door, and struck me him with her hate
Full on the cheek; and the scorn did not bate
Nor the strength failed an instant. With one hand
She heaped her fallen tresses in their band,
And with the other, turning, closed the gate.
And I he felt as men feel when some strange Fate
Beateth its wings over the sea and land
Till the air dies. It was exceeding poor Though he may not endure
10 And mean of me, I know, to yield in such
Added TextTherefore fear always; yet hath he felt such
A shaken dread. But Look you in secret Think, and you shall find
That in no life there is a peril sure;
But that the one to be feared most—yea, much, —
Is what a woman hoards keeps in her calm mind.

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