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StoryTitle("caps", "What the Winds Bring") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(20, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Comes the north wind, snowflakes bringing:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Robes the fields in purest white,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Paints grand houses, trees, and mountains", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On our window-panes at night.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hills and vales the east wind visits,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Brings them chilly, driving rain;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shivering cattle homeward hurry,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Onward through the darkening lane.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heat the south wind kindly gives us;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Reddens apples, gilds the pear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gives the grape a richer purple,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Scatters plenty everywhere.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flowers sweet the west wind offers,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Peeping forth from vines and trees;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Brings the butterflies so brilliant,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the busy, humming bees.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Each wind brings his own best treasure", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To our land from year to year;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blessings many without measure", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "E'er attend the winds' career.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "Lillian Cox.") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Whichever way the wind doth blow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some heart is glad to have it so;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And blow it east or blow it west,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wind that blows, that wind is best.\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
Write all that you can tell about the wind.
What was the direction of the wind during the last snow-storm? Why is the north wind cold? Why is the south wind warm?