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Krakatau
with nary a warning
save a shiver;
did a more transcendent quiver
shatter that dreamy morn;
an island blasted,
and asunder torn.
screaming forth;
and powered by
a million-million voices raised in anger;
she did break
from earthen anchor;
to heavenward take her baleful tower
and widen worldwide over,
her fateful glower.
global sunsets a-fiery glow
landscape painters all a-glow.
out-ward driven ocean wild,
far to crash,
outrun the tide.
mystery of earth,
she shattered uniquely
the silence of a thousand ages,
and loaded writings of a thousand sages;
to write her earthen story,
and gain her,
everlasting glory.
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