poetry
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THE OLD, GREY MAN
Amid the smell of coming rain, the olden, greying man lifts up gnarled hands, to catch the brief refrain, the solemn dripping of the rain, that is sweeping, never creeping o’er his land. His hands are water-stained, wrinkled fingers reaching high pointed up toward the sky, and leaving with disdain, for the power of the…