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...turn the corner of prayer and burn In a blessing of the sudden Sun. In the name of the damned I would turn back and run To the hidden land But the loud sun Christens down The sky. I Am found. O let him Scald me and drown Me in his world's wound. His lightning answers my Cry. My voice burns in his hand. Now I am lost in the blinding One. The sun roars at the prayer...
...little nearer the edge. They're going round the bend, under the strain of listening to every night noise, watching every black face. I bought them a radio." The farmer laughed derisively. "They don't dare to switch it on any longer! It might drown the other sort of noises they're always listening...
...Belgium, another great area-homeland to some 3,000,000-was swept by floods. In Ostend, one of the cities worst hit, the wind tore a baby from the arms of a woman struggling to escape and tossed the child into swirling water in the street to drown. In Antwerp, 120 yds. of docks crumpled into the Scheldt estuary...
...story of America will be repeated on tom-toms of the African jungle, in the gossip of Arab bazaars, under the shady trees of the Champs Elysées, in the temples and along the holy rivers of the East. The ring of truth around the world will drown the strident lies of Moscow's propaganda. One hundred years ago America was the wonder of humanity and the symbol of man's hopes and goals everywhere...
Next, the family endured a period of trial by water. Six times he was hauled out of the neighboring creek, "in a substantially drown [sic] condition." Mother remained calm. In the manner of Tom's Aunt Polly, she reflected: "People who are born to be hanged are safe in the water...